From: Ashley Moran <work@...>
Date: 2006-07-09T04:41:45+09:00
Subject: Alternative to the Symbol#to_proc hack

I've always been in two minds about the Symbol#to_proc hack, it's  
clever but adds a bit of line noise.  Then I figured you can turn it  
around:

   class String
     def everything_in(e)
       e.map { |u| u.send(self) }
     end
   end

   > "upcase".everything_in %w( i am an array )
   => ["I", "AM", "AN", "ARRAY"]

It's a bit nasty because in 1.8 it can call private methods, but I  
kinda like it.  And it's not much use if you want to pass arguments  
either.

Not sure if it's been done before either.

Ashley