From: Trans <transfire@...>
Date: 2007-01-05T22:52:02+09:00
Subject: Re: Pervasive Methods [was: Little Things]


ara.t.howard@noaa.gov wrote:
> On Fri, 5 Jan 2007, Trans wrote:
>
> > Or maybe
> >
> >    obj!send message
>
> that's pretty good.  i was leaning towards a module so we could just try to
> write it as an extension now though...

it's backwards but... imitation of implementation:

  module Kernel

    def send! obj
      @send_f ||= Functor.new{|op,*a| obj.send(op,*a)}
    end

    def class! obj
      obj.class
    end

    def id! obj
      obj.object_id
    end

    # ...
  end

then:

  obj = "hello"
  obj!class #=> String

  obj = 1
  obj!send + 2  #=> 3

T.