From: James Britt <james.britt@...>
Date: 2007-06-03T01:18:25+09:00
Subject: Re: nested methods don't really exist?!

Trans wrote:

> 
> There are dynamic behavior scenarios such as memoize where it could be
> used. But such cases are pretty rare. So I agree. Unless inner defs
> are local to their outer def, akin to local variables, they really
> aren't very useful --being little more than a shortcut for (class <<
> self; self; end).define_method().


Early on, SICP shows the use of inner methods for abstracting function 
behavior but Ruby does not afford the same scoping.


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James Britt

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