From: David Alan Black <dblack@...>
Date: 2002-04-03T22:23:47+09:00
Subject: Re: Understanding Python

Hi --

On Wed, 3 Apr 2002, Massimiliano Mirra wrote:

> On Wed, Apr 03, 2002 at 05:33:49AM +0900, Dr. David Mertz wrote:
> > 	>>> map(just_say, klasses)
> > AFAIK (which is only a little Ruby), one would do this in Ruby by
> > iterating over a code block... but the code block would still use a
> > temporary name to refer to the object whose method is called.
>
> Not if you can spend five minutes writing each_send into Enumerable.
>
> klasses.each_send(:just_say)

See http://www.rubygarden.com/article.php?sid=127 for a discussion
of the pros and cons of this (culminating in a rejected RCR, but
still doable in Ruby).


David

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