From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 1999-07-14T15:07:59+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:00487] Re: coderefs

Hi,

In message "[ruby-talk:00486] Re: coderefs"
    on 99/07/13, Michael Hohn <hohn@math.utah.edu> writes:

|as opposed to using the parentheses; something like
|
|   f = obj.method(:method_name)
|   f(args)
|
|would be far cleaner.  Does the syntax f() have a fixed, predefined meaning?  

I agree f(args) is far cleaner than f.call(args), but Ruby tries to
call the method named `f' instead of invoking method object referred
by the local variable `f'.  It's because the namespaces for methods
and variables are separated, like plain lisp, not like scheme.

If there's any workaround, I'd like to know.

                                                matz.