From: Ezra Zygmuntowicz <ezmobius@...>
Date: 2007-07-12T10:25:11+09:00
Subject: Re: Beautiful Code : Pity he didn't ask here...


On Jul 11, 2007, at 6:18 PM, Tom Copeland wrote:

> Right on.  Today Rich Kilmer showed me some Rails code that Chad  
> Fowler
> had written.  It was something like:
>
> some_array.map(&:name)

Careful with that one Tom. It's *a lot* slower then writing out the  
block since creating a Proc object has some overhead. Syntactically  
it's very nice but performance wise it stinks.


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