From: dblack@...
Date: 2003-02-04T08:43:21+09:00
Subject: Re: Designing API strings vs symbols?

Hi --

On Tue, 4 Feb 2003, Tom Sawyer wrote:

> On Monday 03 February 2003 03:56 pm, Eric Hodel wrote:
>
> > 'foo bar baz'.intern # => :foo bar baz
>
> what foolishness is this!

A Symbol.

> begots! this boggles my mind. is this good and right? what can i call thus?
>
> class Foo
>   attr_accessor 'test me'.intern
>   def initialize
>     self.send('test me='.intern, 2)
>   end
> end
> t = Foo.new
> puts t.send('test me'.intern)
>
> that this works, i find irksome. IRK....

Easy solution: don't do it :-)  End of irkage.

send lets you get around some of the constraints of the parser, but by
the same token (so to speak :-) it can lead to some rather arcane
constructs.


David

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