From: Robert Dober <robert.dober@...>
Date: 2008-03-11T20:01:24+09:00
Subject: Re: Best practices for Ruby Meta-programming

On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 5:31 AM, John Carter <john.carter@tait.co.nz> wrote:
You are certainly right that MP is overused here, I have read slightly
different definitions of which I like best:
"Programming for the Programmer.

def attr_reader *atts
   atts.each do |att|
      define_method att do instance_variable_get "@#{att}" end
   end
end

is definitely for the programmer, it also should rather run at runtime
than at compile time.

Robert


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