From: Robert Klemme <shortcutter@...>
Date: 2010-09-06T23:52:09+09:00
Subject: Re: Odd functional programming question

On Mon, Sep 6, 2010 at 4:11 PM, Brian Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 06, 2010 at 10:50:35PM +0900, Peter Hickman wrote:
>> Any other ideas gratefully received.
>
> That's The Right Way To Do It. For methods which take a block you'll need to
> pass that through, and it's slightly more efficient to use symbols instead
> of strings (if you pass a string to send, it will have to convert it to a
> symbol for you).
>
> def X(text, todo, *args, &blk)
>  text.send(todo, *args, &blk)
> end
>
> puts X("abcdefgh", :downcase)
> puts X("abcdefgh", :each_byte) { |i| puts i }

Actually I'd say _this_ definition of X is completely superfluous
since it does not add anything to #send and so only helps obfuscate
code and slows down execution.

Kind regards

robert

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