[#4567] Re: What's the biggest Ruby development? — Aleksi Niemel<aleksi.niemela@...>

Dave said:

18 messages 2000/08/23
[#4568] Q's on Marshal — Robert Feldt <feldt@...> 2000/08/23

[#4580] RubyUnit testcase run for different init params? — Robert Feldt <feldt@...> 2000/08/25

[#4584] Re: RubyUnit testcase run for different init params? — Dave Thomas <Dave@...> 2000/08/25

Robert Feldt <feldt@ce.chalmers.se> writes:

[#4623] Re: RubyUnit testcase run for different init params? — Robert Feldt <feldt@...> 2000/08/28

On Sat, 26 Aug 2000, Dave Thomas wrote:

[#4652] Andy and Dave's European Tour 2000 — Dave Thomas <Dave@...>

24 messages 2000/08/30
[#4653] Re: Andy and Dave's European Tour 2000 — matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto) 2000/08/30

Hi,

[#4657] Ruby tutorials for newbie — Kevin Liang <kevin@...> 2000/08/30

Hi,

[ruby-talk:4632] Re: Class methods

From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2000-08-29 06:24:02 UTC
List: ruby-talk #4632
Hi,

In message "[ruby-talk:4630] Re: Class methods"
    on 00/08/29, Mark Slagell <ms@iastate.edu> writes:

|On the other hand maybe this kind of thing strays a bit too far into the
|realm of "Do what I mean", and yes it diverges from OOP conventions.  It was
|just a strange and fun thought that occurred to me.

Try something by yourself, using Dave's trick in [ruby-talk:4631]:

  class <<IO
    def method_missing(id, path, *args)
      open(path) do |f|
        f.__send__(id, *args)
      end
    end
  end

  p IO.read(path)

What a dynamic language Ruby is!

							matz.

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