From: John Joyce <dangerwillrobinsondanger@...>
Date: 2007-08-19T00:04:59+09:00
Subject: Re: 8086 simulator in ruby


On Aug 18, 2007, at 9:24 AM, Chris Carter wrote:

> On 8/18/07, Phlip <phlip2005@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> Think of do-end as a block that iterates 1 time. That's what it is!
>>
>> Please read my posting history, blogs, Ruby open source, etc. (-;
>>
>> Robert Klemme wrote:
>>
>>> Actually it's not the "10" but the "times" because "CPU8086"  
>>> would be a
>>> method.
>>>
>>> def CPU8086(&b)
>>
>> The point: I thought a method was forbidden as a constant. Easy to  
>> write but
>> hard to call.
>>
>> By contrast...
>>
>>   doc = Hpricot(my_html_string)
>>
>> His Whyness did something to the module to make it take a method call
>> directly...
>>
>
> No modules were hacked or harmed.  He just defined a method:
>
> 3 	def Hpricot(input = nil, opts = {}, &blk)
> 4 	  Hpricot.parse(input, opts, &blk)
> 5 	end
>
> http://code.whytheluckystiff.net/hpricot/browser/trunk/lib/hpricot/ 
> parse.rb
>
> -- 
> Chris Carter
> concentrationstudios.com
> brynmawrcs.com
>

Yep, normal stuff. EXCEPT for the capitalization. You can do it, but  
it goes against usual style.
An example:


module Unchi

   def poots(who)
   	puts "#{who} did pooh, poot"
   end

   # Poots = poots
   alias_method :Poots, :poots

end
include Unchi

Poots("JJ")