From: ara.t.howard@...
Date: 2006-11-09T05:33:10+09:00
Subject: Re: Proc as Observer

On Thu, 9 Nov 2006, James Edward Gray II wrote:

> On Nov 8, 2006, at 12:55 PM, Trans wrote:
>
>> Given your approach I think I'd just go ahead and do:
>> 
>>   class Proc
>>     alias :update :call
>>   end
>
> I thought Tim's solution was far more elegant.  Notice how he resisted 
> gratuitous hacking of the core.

not to mention tim's solution can be neatly extended to

   def observer &b
     o = lambda &b
     class << o
       alias_method 'update', 'call'
     end
     o
   end

in fact, you'd thing add_observer would accept a block and do exactly this.

regards.

-a
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