From: Robert Klemme <shortcutter@...>
Date: 2007-08-19T20:19:58+09:00
Subject: Re: 8086 simulator in ruby

On 18.08.2007 17:04, John Joyce wrote:
> 
> 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.

Phlip, not sure what you meant by this.  It's not different from any 
other method.

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

Even the std lib does it:

irb(main):019:0> Kernel.methods.grep /^[A-Z]/
=> ["Integer", "Float", "String", "Array"]

I don't see a big issue here.

Kind regards

	robert