From: Jim Menard <jimm@...>
Date: 2001-07-20T12:09:21+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:18163] Re: Looking for Ruby programming  exercises

Wayne Vucenic <wvucenic@netgate.net> writes:

> Also, it seems that Ruby's elegant structure of classes, metaclasses,
> singleton methods, being able to add methods to existing classes, the
> fact that class definitions are executable code, etc., etc. should
> enable really elegant solutions to certain problems.  It's just that I
> don't yet know what those problems are.

Here are three already implemented in the base Ruby distribution or easily
available on the RAA: distributed objects (DRb, Rinda), the Delegation
design pattern (Delegator and SimpleDelegator), and profiling (profile.rb).

Jim
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