From: Peter <lumbergh@...>
Date: 2012-08-14T04:59:08+09:00
Subject: Idea: def ... end returns the symbolized version of the newly-defined method, instead of nil

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This would allow useful syntax constructs such as this:

protected def protected_method
  ...
end

and

private def private_method
  ...
end

I hear from #ruby that this may have been proposed years ago. Also, the
symbolized version of the method_name is instantiated anyway already, so
the extra cost is nil. Thoughts? Why no traction?

-Peter Marreck

-- 
"I'd put my money on the sun and solar energy. What a source of power! I
hope we don't have to wait until oil and coal run out before we tackle
that."
-Thomas Edison, 1931

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-Thomas Edison, 1931<br>
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