From: James Britt <james.britt@...>
Date: 2008-03-04T08:44:04+09:00
Subject: Re: Question on the Ruby Programming Language Book

Bharat Ruparel wrote:

> 1  Why do you have to create enumerated objects this way?  This seems a 
> long way off from Ruby's philosophy of being succint.  Just to define a 
> few "object" constants I have to go through this?
> 

Well, you can add this method:


   def next
      INSTANCES[ (@n+1) % 4]
   end


and then do this:


   season = Season::Autumn
   puts season
   puts season.next
   puts season.next.next



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James Britt

"The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance, but the illusion 
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