From: Julian Leviston <julian@...>
Date: 2009-02-04T16:17:37+09:00
Subject: Re: Method.new - why not?

Isn't that how it already works?? :). Sorta. :). Try this:  
File.method(:foreach)

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On 04/02/2009, at 5:20 PM, Daniel Berger <djberg96@gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
>