From: Alex Chaffee <alexch@...>
Date: 2010-09-04T07:04:23+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] Wrong: an introspecting assert library

On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 2:28 PM, Ryan Davis <ryand-ruby@zenspider.com> wrote:
>
> HAHAHA!... you SICK SICK BASTARDS.... HAHAHAHA!
>
> good work!

>blush<

You just made my day.

>> Doesn't Ruby have poor support for AST
>> introspection (see
>> http://blog.zenspider.com/2009/04/parsetree-eol.html)? Well, yes, it
>> does, so we cheat: we figure out what file and line the assert block
>> is defined in, then open the file, read the code, and parse it
>> directly

Hey, I just had a thought -- maybe this technique should be called
extrospection.

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