From: Dossy <dossy@...>
Date: 2002-07-14T04:07:02+09:00
Subject: Re: Dynamic Methods

On 2002.07.14, John <nojgoalbyspam@hotmail.com> wrote:
> > In any case, what did you need this for?
> 
> I assume you mean having the class respond to methods that match a regexp?
> 
> So you can have a user input commands without having to type the whole
> command.  Also for having aliases for commands without having to write each
> method to call the main method.
> 
> class foo
>   def /[ls|dir|directory]/
>   end
>   def /desc.*/
>   end
> end
> 
> foo.ls
> foo.dir
> foo.directory
> 
> foo.desc
> foo.describe
> 
> Personally I think its kinda neat.  I love the power of regular expressions.

So, implement #method_missing that delegates to the actual method name
using regex as the mapper?

-- Dossy

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