From: Kirk Haines <khaines@...>
Date: 2006-06-16T23:42:38+09:00
Subject: Re: API style preference?  a.b=c or a(:b=>c)

On Friday 16 June 2006 6:30 am, benjohn@fysh.org wrote:

> I don't like either :) If you only set up a constant in one place, and
> you use require to make sure that file's only parsed once, then why
> would you want that behaviour? ... There's probably a good reason, but
> maybe there's a better solution to the problem?

:)

Because the class definition is not required, and may indeed be evaluated 
multiple times.  And there isn't really a better solution because the point 
of the reloading is to pick up changes to the code dynamically, without 
restarting a long running process.

So, getting back to the point of the question, you'd prefer multiple lines all 
with the const_defined? check explicitly attached.  Fair enough.  However, 
what if the api in question weren't dealing with constants, but was something 
else entirely?

zoom.Foo = :bar

zoom(:Foo => :bar)

Preference?


Thanks,

Kirk Haines