From: Srijayanth Sridhar <srijayanth@...>
Date: 2009-05-06T19:54:02+09:00
Subject: Re: a DSL + scope problem

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I was thinking something of this sort:

class MyDsl
   def load_helper_methods filename
      MyDsl.class_eval(File.read(filename))
   end
end

and the DSL itself would contain two parts really, one file where the helper
methods are defined, and another for the actual DSL.

Basically:

$ cat foo.dsl
load_helper_methods "my_helpers"
# the rest of the DSL
# follows

etc

Now, for some annoying reason my head swims with yet other possibilities
such as making the helper methods a Module and have it be included in the
class etc. Kid in a candy store and all that. Too many options.

Jayanth


On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 12:42 PM, Robert Dober <robert.dober@gmail.com>wrote:

> On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 6:49 AM, Srijayanth Sridhar <srijayanth@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Thanks Brian,
> >
> > All of these help. Eventually I would like those using the DSL to define
> > their own helper methods.
>
> ... which have scope of?
> Robert
>
>

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