From: MenTaLguY <mental@...>
Date: 2006-02-20T03:53:02+09:00
Subject: [SOLUTION] metakoans.rb (#67)

I've got two.

Here's the first one I did:

 class Module
   def attribute( name, &default_block )
     name, default_value = name.to_a.first if name.is_a? Hash
     default_block ||= proc { default_value }

     ivar = "@#{ name }".to_sym

     define_method name do
       value = instance_variable_get ivar
       unless value or instance_variables.include? ivar.to_s
         instance_variable_set ivar, instance_eval( &default_block )
       else
         value
       end
     end

     define_method "#{ name }=" do |value|
       instance_variable_set ivar, value
     end

     alias_method "#{ name }?", name
   end
 end

23 lines.

Then here's the second one I did, after Ara clarified that I needn't use
instance variables:

 class Module
   def attribute( name, &default_block )
     name, default_value = name.to_a.first if name.is_a? Hash
     default_block ||= proc { default_value }

     name = name.to_sym

     define_method( "__default__#{ name }", &default_block )

     define_method( :__attributes__ ) do
       @__attributes__ ||= Hash.new { |h, k| h[k] = send "__default__#{ k }" }
     end

     define_method( name ) { __attributes__[name] }
     define_method( "#{ name }=" ) { |value| __attributes__[name] = value }
     alias_method "#{ name }?", name
   end
 end

18 lines.

Actually, this last one can be mildly golfed down to 13 lines, at the
cost of getting a little ugly and a little slow:

 class Module
   def attribute( name, &default_block )
     name, default_value = name.to_a.first if name.is_a? Hash
     default_block ||= proc { default_value }
     define_method( "__default__#{ name }", &default_block )
     define_method( :__attributes__ ) do
       @__attributes__ ||= Hash.new { |h, k| h[k] = send "__default__#{ k }" }
     end
     define_method( name ) { __attributes__[name] }
     define_method( "#{ name }=" ) { |value| __attributes__[name] = value }
     alias_method "#{ name }?", name
   end
 end

Anyway, that's all.  Both these versions only do one attribute at a
time, since that's all the tests asked for.  Plus I don't think the
block would make sense for multiple attributes.

And Ara?  This Quiz rocked so much.  Thank you!

-mental