From: Peter Hickman <peterhickman386@...>
Date: 2010-09-07T00:07:27+09:00
Subject: Re: Odd functional programming question

On 6 September 2010 15:52, Robert Klemme <shortcutter@googlemail.com> wrote:
> 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.

It was just a dummy method to get a feel how the code would be used.
What I am using it for is a method to compare two pieces of data with
a variety of optional preprocessing. This way I can put the
preprocessing (of which there could be several variants) in an array,
as [ :gsub, /[aeiouy/, '_' ] etc, and iterate over the data and the
preprocessors and get the fitness scores out of the X method.

I will mean that I have one X method rather than X1, X2 ... Xn which
are all just minor variations on X.