From: Phrogz <phrogz@...>
Date: 2007-09-01T14:15:09+09:00
Subject: Re: Method names and alias

On Aug 31, 1:47 pm, darren kirby <bulli...@badcomputer.org> wrote:
> My code would be considerably DRYer if I could make 'load_byte_unsigned' an
> alias to 'load_byte', and have the method inspect the name it was called as
> to decide if it should run 'bitstring_to_int(byte, signed=false)' or not.
>
> Is there a way to do this?

I can't offer you a way to do this, but:

> If not, I suppose my best bet is to move the snipped 15 lines to
> a 'load_byte_common' method and make 'load_byte' and 'load_byte_unsigned'
> thin wrappers around it?

I'd personally do something like:

  def load_byte( byte, unsigned=false )
    #...your code here...
  end

  def load_byte_unsigned( byte )
    load_byte( byte, true )
  end

A (private?) utility function is certainly possible, but not the way
I'd go, or needed.