From: Robert Dober <robert.dober@...>
Date: 2008-09-02T19:31:46+09:00
Subject: Re: Does this seem useful for you?

On Tue, Sep 2, 2008 at 12:23 PM, Jens Wille <jens.wille@uni-koeln.de> wrote:
> hi robert!
>
> Robert Dober [2008-09-02 12:15]:
>> Does anybody else than me think that this would be nice to have
>> in core?
> +1 from me. i already have such a thing in my ruby-nuggets library:
>
> <http://prometheus.rubyforge.org/ruby-nuggets/classes/Object.html#M000078>
>
> argument handling could be improved, i guess, but even a basic
> implementation like yours (w/o accepting arguments for individual
> messages) would be nice to have.
Hmm maybe like this

def map_messages( *args )
    args.map{ | message_and_args |
        m = Array === message_and_args ? message_and_args : [ message_and_args ]
        send *m
    }
end

"abcd".map_messages( [ :[], 1, 2], :size )
end
>
> cheers
> jens
>
>



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