[ruby-talk:7574] Re: flatten_by(n)

David Alan Black <[e-mail]> wrote:
>
>Hello --
>
>On Mon, 18 Dec 2000, Conrad Schneiker wrote:
>
> > David Alan Black writes,
> >
> > # Comments/optimizations/whatever welcome.
> >
> > Well, I hope when this thread winds up that these things (somehow) 
>become
> > (provisional?) additions to Ruby, with one-level and n-level flattening
> > options.
> >
> > But more generally speaking, do we need something of a "sub-module RAA" 
>of
> > sorts to collect and catalog for all the useful methods that people
> > continually come up with to deal with various tasks and problems that 
>they
> > encounter? IMHO, yes. (We could still use modules for packaging these
> > mostly individual methods, I suppose, with some sort of mnemonic
> > class+method naming convention.)
>
>I would love to see something like that -- a sort of dynamic Ruby
>cookbook, or "method garden", where this kind of code could reside and
>be made accessible.  I definitely feel that the weak link in the
>chain, right now, is the question of what happens to all these
>benchmarked, tested, tweaked methods after they've been worked through
>here.
>
>A few thoughts and/or questions about such a thing:
>
>1. It would have to have some clear relation to whatever Ruby archive
>might emerge from current discussions (Dave T.'s Wiki, etc.).  That
>relation might be a "feed" one, or more sandbox-like.  But whatever --
>it would have to be clear.
>
>2. Ditto for the whole question of things that end up as, or just
>happen to overlap with, new Ruby features.  There would have to be
>maintenance and pruning of the archive to reflect that fact.
>
>3. Would such a site/archive include mechanisms for discussion and
>tweaking and so forth?  Or would it be assumed that the code submitted
>had already been through such processes?  (I like the former approach
>more -- nothing against finished products, and I don't want all
>method-writing to disappear from this list, but it feels to me like
>such a site should have a sort of workshop component to it.)
>
I strongly suspect that in the end the best solution will turn
out to be a cross between a wicki and something like
http://www.perlmonks.org - not that the two are that different.

I would picture a website with an area set aside for questions,
one or more general discussion areas, and then community
maintained documents for categorized Q&A, a FAQ, etc.

Cheers,
Ben
_________________________________________________________________
Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com