From: transfire@...
Date: 2006-07-14T22:05:13+09:00
Subject: Re: About MyClass#my_method


Jonas Pfenniger wrote:

> Yes but Matz said to optimize breakage for 2.0 so this might be worthwile.
> I remember that lisp guy saying that ruby methods where not
> first-class methods (didn't find the thread). Which is wrong, but such
> shortcuts are nice for metaprogramming.

I would be even better if they retained state too.

> > > def MyClass#my_method end would replace class MyClass; def my_method end end
> >
> > This is already done:
> >
> >   def MyClass.my_method
> >      ...
>
> No, this is a class method. You have to use
> MyClass.define_method(:my_method) {} to define a new instance method.

Ah, my bad. I misread. Yea, I agree. It would be nice.

> > I would search the mailing list though, this has been mentioned before.
>
> I've tried but nothing really nice went out. Do you have and nice
> keywords I could use ?

Hmm. Yea that's a hard one to search for. I did find this, bt itn;t
much:

http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.ruby/browse_thread/thread/a5c87a9472c642ce/97c5ede426c1c111?q=%22%23%22+instance+method+ri&rnum=6#97c5ede426c1c111

T.