From: Bill Clagett <bill@32768.com>
Date: 2002-09-21T09:51:16+09:00
Subject: Re: Creating a method given a block

Sort of scary, but you could abuse ids:

class Foo
  def build x, y, z, sym, &block
    instance_eval "
      class << self
        def #{sym.id2name}
          ObjectSpace._id2ref(#{block.id}).call
        end
      end
    "
  end
end

a = Foo.new
a.build(1, 2, 3, :spam) { puts "printed from a block"}
a.spam

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Hal E. Fulton" <hal9000@hypermetrics.com>
To: "ruby-talk ML" <ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org>
Sent: Friday, September 20, 2002 5:00 PM
Subject: Creating a method given a block


> Suppose I have a method 'build' to which I am passing
> (among other things) a Symbol and a block.
> 
> The build method will define a method of the given
> name and the block will in effect be the "body"
> of that block.
> 
> I've been messing with Procs trying to get this to
> work. Just can't figure it out.
> 
> Don't say "define_method" because I'm 1.6-compatible.
> Don't know how that one works anyway.
> 
> For the visual thinkers:
> 
>   def build(a, b, c, sym, &block)
>     #...
>     # Could use eval to define method
>     # referred to by 'sym'... but how
>     # to get it to call the block??
>   end
> 
>   build(x, y, z, :get_busy) { do_stuff(); do_some_more() }
> 
> Just curious.
> 
> Hal
> 
>