From: Gregory Brown <gregory.t.brown@...>
Date: 2006-01-09T05:07:51+09:00
Subject: Re: Ideas on "Why Living Dangerous can be A Good Thing" in Ruby?

On 1/8/06, James Edward Gray II <james@grayproductions.net> wrote:

> I know I'm crossing the line.  When it eventually breaks, I'll know
> who's fault it is.  For now though, I'm telling Ruby, "Just trust me;
> I know what I'm doing here."  The great part is that she believes me
> and does it.  ;)

Let's think of examples where this certainly is true and results in
good things.  The first one that came to my head, and the example I
used in class was automated memoization.  I'd like to hear some of the
greater hacks and accomplishments people have seen/done using the
openness and dynamicity of ruby as a feature, instead of a risk.
(There are plenty of them out there).

Does anyone have a good example of a domain specific language that
heavily uses metaprogramming to make it 'work' ?