From: Farrel Lifson <farrel.lifson@...>
Date: 2006-08-17T23:24:17+09:00
Subject: Re: Need - macros feature

On 17/08/06, Henry Savr <hsavr@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Dear Ruby gurus:
>
> Are there Ruby macro features as a part of Ruby standard?
> I want them to work with ANY editor or interactive environment and with
> ANY OS
>
> Why?
>
> Because it is distracting to key-in:
>
>  def a1
>   @a1
>   end
>   def a1=(value)
>   @a1=value
>   end
>
> when you are thinking just about class' very general behaviour.
> I would prefer to key-in something like this initially:
>
>   %def a1
>
> and POSSIBLY add: -r, or -w, or -rw
> on early design stage.  Entering all the juzz above distracts strongly.
> I'm going to work on details later.
>
> Besides, I work on various systems and I want to have unified macro
> options just by installing Ruby.
>
> Thank you,
> Henry
>
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>

attr_accessor :a1  # RW
attr_reader :a1 # R
attr_writer :a1 # W

Farrel