From: Roger Pack <rogerpack2005@...>
Date: 2007-10-17T22:45:51+09:00
Subject: Re: ruby wish-list

Ari Brown wrote:
> Hey!
> 
> Not **quite** on topic of garbage collection.... But how hard would
> it be to create maybe a style of method creation that doesn't use
> the  . to represent Object.behavior ?
Define your code in the global namespace, like
def a
end
is a function a 'in the global namespace' -- no dots.
Maybe hard code in the parent class?
The way Rails does it is by say you do the command
my_special_class_function_one
if it doesn't exist it catches the error thrown for non-existence, looks 
up how and then defines the method and returns it (redefines things 
in-line).

> 
> In retrospect, it seems like definitely a core language feature that
> may or may not be impossible to get at... But I figured I'd ask :-)
> 
> 
> Also, Is there an easy/hard way to define new %{} style methods? Like
> for a Rope object, maybe %m{} or something.

Not sure.
GL!

> 
> Just a newbie's musings.
> 
> Thanks,
> Ari
> --------------------------------------------|
> If you're not living on the edge,
> then you're just wasting space.

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