From: Daniel Berger <djberg96@...>
Date: 2009-02-04T15:20:21+09:00
Subject: Method.new - why not?

Hi,

Just a random thought that I think was inspired by several people on
the list asking about getting the name of the method from within the
method - why don't we have Method.new? In other words, what if this:

def foo(x, y=1)
end

Was the equivalent of this?

x = Method.new(:name => 'foo', :parameters => ['x', 'y'], :defaults =>
{'y' => 1})
Object.include(x) # or bind(x) or something

Similar to an UnboundMethod I suppose, but with more options. Wouldn't
it be easier to get method metadata with this approach? And give
programmers the ability to associate any methods with any class or
module?

class Bar
   def foo(x, y=1)
      p method(:foo).metadata  # => @name => 'foo', @parameters =>
['x','y'], :defaults => {'y' => 1})
   end
end

Or is this totally stupid?

If this has been discussed before just point me to the thread.

Regards,

Dan