From: Christian Szegedy <szegedy@...>
Date: 2002-09-24T17:40:15+09:00
Subject: Re: are functions/methods "first class objects"?

Christoph wrote:
> "Christian Szegedy"
> ...
> 
>>Using blocks has some other benevolent psychological
>>and aesthetical aspect: it prevents an inflation of parenthesis.
>>Whatever you prefer: do ... end or
>>{ ... }, it gives valuable hints: this is a piece
>>of executable code, while the CAML, LISP and smalltalk
>>syntax is much less balanced in my eyes.
>>
>>Therefore, I think that Ruby is at least as elegant
>>and powerful in handling functional features as the functional languges.
> 
> 
> Try writing something as seemly simple as a functional
> Proc composition in Ruby (preserving arity etc.)
> 
> class Proc
>     def *(an_other_proc)
>           ..
>      end
> end
> 
> 
> This experience might change your mind ...
> 
> /Christoph
> 
> 

class Proc
   def *(other,*parms)
     self[other[*parms)]]
   end
end