From: Urabe Shyouhei <shyouhei@...>
Date: 2010-10-05T22:02:11+09:00
Subject: Re: how can we make a ruby compiler

(2010/10/05 21:31), Samuel Williams wrote:
> For example, in most of those languages, the name of a function is specified explicitly and can't change due to the environment or scope of execution.

Oh yes they can.  For instance:

> rhino
Rhino 1.7 release 2 2010 01 20
js> foo = {
  foo: function() {
    this.foo = function () {
      return "bar"
    };
    return "foo";
  }
};
[object Object]
js> foo.foo();
foo
js> foo.foo();
bar