From: Robert Feldt <feldt@...>
Date: 2001-11-29T22:07:29+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:26887] Re: Can this be factored?

On Thu, 29 Nov 2001, Mark Hahn wrote:

> The two if statements below are identical except the words left and right
> (and < & >) are reversed.  I don't think this can be factored but I thought
> I'd throw this out to see if anyone can think of a way.
> 
I haven't gone through it all but what about the "pattern"

  a < b      => a.send(:<, b)

so that you can specify the method (:< or :>) in a parameter. Likewise for
@left or @right and off you go?!

/Robert