From: Joel VanderWerf <vjoel@...>
Date: 2003-01-24T04:40:38+09:00
Subject: Re: emulating C preprocessor's #if

Peter Kwangjun Suk wrote:
> On Fri, 24 Jan 2003 03:36:04 +0900
> Joel VanderWerf <vjoel@PATH.Berkeley.EDU> wrote:
> 
> 
>>Usually, when writing ruby code, I don't worry about conditional 
>>compilation, and just use a run-time test. 
> 
> 
> What about using the Factory pattern, and instantiating an object of a platform-specific subclass?  

Thanks, but I was avoiding any extra objects or method calls because the 
code is fairly performance critical. (But then maybe I should just be 
using C anyway, rather than try to write C in Ruby.)