From: Joel VanderWerf <vjoel@...>
Date: 2008-07-13T08:13:52+09:00
Subject: Re: inject idiom

Tim Pease wrote:
> On Jul 12, 2008, at 3:36 PM, Dave Bass wrote:
> 
>> ara.t.howard wrote:
>>>   foo.bar.foobar.barfoo.method
>>
>> Surely the aim of all programming is to pack as much functionality as
>> possible into a single line of code. Everyone knows newlines are
>> horrendously expensive, so they should be used sparingly.  ;-)
>>
> 
> I've found that my instantiating only a single newline and passing 
> around a reference has helped my coding style immensely!

And why not do away with \w+ method names, while we're at it?

NEWLINE = "\n"

class Foo
   define_method NEWLINE do
     "bar"
   end
   define_method NEWLINE*2 do
     "baz"
   end
end

p Foo.new.send(NEWLINE)
p Foo.new.send(NEWLINE*2)

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