From: James Edward Gray II <james@...>
Date: 2006-02-09T04:17:58+09:00
Subject: Re: Meta-Meta-Programming

On Feb 8, 2006, at 1:11 PM, Daniel Nugent wrote:

> My beef with the specific implementation in this thread as it applies
> to Design By Contract is that you're issuing these wrapper methods
> individually.
>
> A more preferential solution would involve setting up a list of
> functions that need a contract applied and then being able to, in one
> fell swoop, ensure that they all are bound to the contract at once,
> whether that be preconditions, postconditions, or ensurances about the
> parameters passed.  Maybe that'll require a couple of method calls,
> but you'd still generally be doing it all at once.

class Example
   def one; ... end
   def two; ... end

   %w{one two}.each do |meth|
     apply_contract meth, ...
   end
end

James Edward Gray II