From: Martin DeMello <martindemello@...>
Date: 2008-03-28T03:51:01+09:00
Subject: Re: pypes

On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 11:33 AM, Dave Thomas <dave@pragprog.com> wrote:
>
>  http://pragdave.blogs.pragprog.com/pragdave/2007/12/pipelines-using.html
>  http://pragdave.blogs.pragprog.com/pragdave/2008/01/pipelines-using.html

Tangentially, why did the trick of defining methods with the same name
as classes, to delegate to Class.new, fall out of favour?

    tripler          = Transformer.new {|val| val * 3}

would read more nicely as

    tripler          = Transformer {|val| val * 3}

with def Transformer(x); Transformer.new(x); end

I remember it being a commoner practice a few years ago.

martin