From: James Edward Gray II <james@...>
Date: 2007-06-06T05:19:44+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] prototype-2.0.0

On Jun 5, 2007, at 3:03 PM, ara.t.howard wrote:

>
> On Jun 5, 2007, at 12:55 PM, Victor Zverok Shepelev wrote:
>
>> * Does anybody uses it in real projects? I mean, does prototype-based
>> approach in not prototype-based language have proved to be useful?  
>> The
>> question is not about "throw the library away", but about "who can  
>> say, what
>> features in library are useful", "who can recommend library for  
>> some tasks?"
>
> example
>
>   Config = Object.prototype{
>     YAML.load(IO.read('config')).each do |key, value|
>       attribute key => value
>     end
>   }
>
>   p Config.host
>   p Config.port

Which is significantly better than:

require "ostruct"
Config = OpenStruct.new(
   File.open("config") { |file| YAML.load(file) }
)

?

I guess the difference comes in how they are used, right?  Can you  
show an example of that?

I realize I'm just not prototype enlightened yet.  No offense intended.

James Edward Gray II