From: John Carter <john.carter@...>
Date: 2007-02-09T06:45:49+09:00
Subject: Re: Your favorite bit of ruby code?

On Fri, 9 Feb 2007, Carl Lerche wrote:

> I'm just curious what your favorite bit of ruby code is? Do you have
> any small bits, methods, classes, or anything else, that just make you
> say "Wow, that is sweet!"

It's the  IO.read().scan(%r{}mx){|m| ...} paradigm here I love...

Equally Good is `command`.scan(%r{}mx){|m| ...}

ruby -e 'IO.read("ruby/eval.c").scan(%r{^([a-z_]+)\s*\(.*?\{}m){|m|puts $1}'
rb_jump_context
rb_secure
rb_secure_update
rb_check_safe_obj
rb_check_safe_str
raise_undef
rb_clear_cache
rb_clear_cache_for_remove
rb_clear_cache_by_id
rb_clear_cache_by_class




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