From: Ashley Moran <work@...>
Date: 2006-07-09T07:18:06+09:00
Subject: Re: Alternative to the Symbol#to_proc hack


On Jul 08, 2006, at 9:05 pm, dblack@wobblini.net wrote:

> Of course, I'm hopelessly non-edge -- I actually think that:
>
>   %w{i am an array}.map {|item| item.upcase }
>
> is logical, reads nicely left to right, and contains no line noise :-)

True, but that only makes Java look old-fashioned.  I wanted to make  
Ruby look old-fashioned ;o)

Ever since I read about Higher-Order Messages at http:// 
nat.truemesh.com/archives/000537.html I've been determined to find a  
way to write plain English as valid Ruby code.  My goal is to find a  
neat way to express business rules in Ruby, with as little framework  
coding as possible.  I think it may take a *little* more than  
extending the String class though!

Ashley