From: John <nojgoalbyspam@...>
Date: 2002-07-13T03:58:32+09:00
Subject: Dynamic Methods

Hi all,

I wonder if anyone has any suggestions on how to create a method that
matches its name based on a regular expression.  For instance:

class Foo
  def /bar*/
    puts "Wow!"
  end
end

Then I could do something like:

foo = Foo.new
foo.barchart
foo.barstweward

The regexp method name throws the interpreter off of course.

I looked at the method_missing feature to implement this.  It gets part of
the problem solved, but I then don't know what the regular expression for
the method name is.

Anyone have any ideas or pointers on where I could look?

TIA, John.