From: Ralph Mason <ralph.mason@...>
Date: 2001-11-22T05:49:21+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:26073] Re: call_myself

While I don't agree that call_self is of use.

class X
 
 def fac(x)
  return 1 if x==0
  x*call_self(x-1)
 end
  
 def call_self(y)
   caller[-2] =~/(\w*)'/
   send($1,y)
 end
end

puts X.new().fac(4)

It will be slow, but it will work.

Ralph

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tobias Reif" <tobiasreif@pinkjuice.com>
To: "ruby-talk ML" <ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org>
Sent: Thursday, November 22, 2001 9:25 AM
Subject: [ruby-talk:26067] Re: call_myself


> David Alan Black wrote:
> 
> 
> > I see what you're getting at,
> 
> 
> good :)
> 
> but I think that if there are so many
> > lines of code in a method that you can't remember the method's name,
> > it's probably time for some refactoring :-)
> 
> 
> Yep, I know. I just think it would be very nice even for very short 
> methods: the recursing structure would be explained explicitly in the 
> code itself -> easier to understand.
> 
> So again: who can implement call_myself in some lines of Ruby code?
> 
> Tobi
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