From: ara.t.howard@...
Date: 2006-07-14T07:43:52+09:00
Subject: Re: Choosing among object/class/module/top-level methods...

On Fri, 14 Jul 2006, Sam Kong wrote:

<snip various methods i've used too>

> I'm a big fan of Object-orientation.  But if the object's life-span is as
> short as Solver.new(problem).solve, I'm really hesitant to create an object
> when a simple method call will do.  Am I thinking of a worthless subjective
> thing?
>
> Do you have any criteria about going for object/class/module/top-level
> methods?

in all seriousness this is __precisely__ why i just wrote the prototype
library - i was just facing this question (again) yesterday and couldn't stand
it anymore.  now i can write

   solver = prototype{
     @some_instance_var

     def solve
       something @some_instance_var
     end

     def something arg
     end
   }

eh voila!


check it out and let me know what you think - it really is designed for
exactly this purpose.

btw - i'll be making a new release later today which is cleaned up a lot but
only adds one small new feature so the current one, though messy, should be
fine to play with regarding functionality.

cheers.

-a
-- 
suffering increases your inner strength.  also, the wishing for suffering
makes the suffering disappear.
- h.h. the 14th dali lama