From: Logan Capaldo <logancapaldo@...>
Date: 2006-08-01T02:57:44+09:00
Subject: Re: using the current method name within current method


On Jul 31, 2006, at 4:25 AM, Robert Klemme wrote:

> Matt Todd wrote:
>> If you wanted to modularize it just for the sake of it, you could do
>> something similar to the following:
>> module CurrentMethodName
>>  def this_method
>>    caller[0]=~/`(.*?)'/
>>    $1
>>  end
>> end
>
> You can rewrite that as
>
> def this_method
>   caller[0][/`([^']*)'/, 1]
> end
>
> and thusly avoid the global variable.
>
> Kind regards
>
> 	robert
>

I have a sneaking suspicion he might have done it with the global  
variable (although $1 isn't really global) on purpose, since =~ / 
literal/ is the fastest way to do a regexp.