From: ptkwt@...1.aracnet.com (Phil Tomson)
Date: 2003-03-28T06:55:01+09:00
Subject: Re: What are the differences between Ruby's blocks and Python's lambdas?

In article <20030327184433.A14861@linnet.org>,
Brian Candler  <B.Candler@pobox.com> wrote:
>On Thu, Mar 27, 2003 at 11:19:09PM +0900, ts wrote:
>>   def addmeth(m,x)
>>     class << self; self end.instance_eval { define_method(m,x) }
>>   end
>
>I apologise, I missed that because at a glance it seemed to be what I had
>written.
>
>I had no idea that you could use the result of 'class...end' in that way...
>neat!
>
>  pp = proc { |x| x+1 }
>  addmeth(:pp,pp)
>  pp(3) # >> 4
>
>Wonderful.
>
>Cheers,

I guess I'm not quite catching this....  but there does seem to be 
something quite useful here.  Could someone write this up on the wiki?

Phil