From: Mathieu Bouchard <matju@...>
Date: 2002-01-15T07:35:18+09:00
Subject: Re: a wishlist for ruby 2.0


On Tue, 15 Jan 2002, Mathieu Bouchard wrote:
> On Mon, 14 Jan 2002, Daniel Berger wrote:
> > That would be considered an lvalue sub, right?  How do most other

correcting typos, + other improvements...:

> but has an additional argument separate from the main argument lisp.

main argument _list_. =)

> (defmethod (setf my-blah) ((my-class self))
>   (my-other-blah (my-frob self)))

(defmethod (setf my-blah) (value (self MyClass))
  (setf (my-other-blah (my-frob self)) value))

> which in Ruby is:
> def my_blah value
>   my_frob.my_other_blah = value
> end

forgot the equal sign in the def (this is #my_blah= )

> but Ruby doesn't support additional arguments, while CommonLISP does.
> Imho it's useful when you want several methods like #[]=, but can't 
> because #[]= is the only name you can give it.

and those three lines were the real point.

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