From: Harry Ohlsen <harryo@...>
Date: 2003-01-12T15:18:25+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby:  politics & performance [long]

On Sun, 12 Jan 2003 07:47, Louis Krupp wrote:
> The problem:  Read a structured file (the details are irrelevant)
> and generate a program which, when run, would produce the original
> file.  Modify the program, re-run it, and you have a relatively
> easy way to change the original structured file.

I'm not going to second-guess you, because I assume you've thought about your 
specific problem a heck of a lot, but perhaps there's a different approach 
that would avoid the issue you've been hitting altogether.

It might be worthwhile giving a small example of the type of data you're 
playing with and the kind of things you want to do by modifying the program.

There are some very clever people on this list ... I'm not one of them :-) ... 
who may see a completely orthogonal approach to the problem.

Just a thought.

Harry O.