From: Suraj Kurapati <snk@...>
Date: 2006-11-18T16:57:11+09:00
Subject: Re: Metaprogammatically define methods.

Suraj Kurapati wrote:
> class Foo
>   File.open('readme.txt').readlines.each do |entry|

Well it turns out that the above line can be simplified to:

   File.open('readme.txt').each_line do |entry|

or even to:

   IO.foreach('readme.txt') do |entry|

Personally, I prefer each_line because IO.foreach sounds like "for each 
IO object in ..." instead of "for each line in ...".

>     define_method "test_#{entry}".to_sym do
>       puts "testing #{entry}"
>     end
>   end
> end
> 
> Foo.new.test_whatever

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