From: Martin DeMello <martindemello@...>
Date: 2006-10-03T19:03:58+09:00
Subject: Re: New magical version of Symbol.to_proc

On 10/1/06, Dr Nic <drnicwilliams@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> This would allow:
> people.map :fullname, :split
>
> as the equivalent of:
> people.map {|p| p.fullname}.map {|n| n.split}
>
> Oh so much fun :)

I did this a while back by adding an f (for functional) to the method
name - so if you said people.mapf :fullname method_missing would see
that it ended with an f, strip the f out and construct a block to pass
to map. map_fullname reads even better, though.

martin