From: Jens Wille <jens.wille@...>
Date: 2008-09-02T20:04:44+09:00
Subject: Re: Does this seem useful for you?

Robert Dober [2008-09-02 12:31]:
> On Tue, Sep 2, 2008 at 12:23 PM, Jens Wille <jens.wille@uni-koeln.de> wrote:
>> +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 )
done. more or less ;-) i kept hashes, since i sometimes like 'em
better. would you prefer === over is_a? in this case? if so, why?