From: "Hal E. Fulton" <hal9000@...>
Date: 2003-07-18T02:39:10+09:00
Subject: Re: What's the point?

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Nathaniel Talbott" <nathaniel@talbott.ws>
To: "ruby-talk ML" <ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org>
Sent: Thursday, July 17, 2003 12:30 PM
Subject: Re: What's the point?


> Jim Freeze [mailto:jim@freeze.org] wrote:
> 
> > Hmm, I think 'x' has the same visibility as 'fred'.
> True, but it doesn't exist until fred is called:
> This means you could do something, er, interesting, like this:
> Why would you want to do that? I'm not exactly sure...

[snippage]

Here's an idea.

class CrossPlatform
  def unix
    def meth1  #...
    def meth2  #...
    def meth3  #...
  end

  def windows
    def meth1  #...
    def meth2  #...
    def meth3  #...
  end
end

obj = CrossPlatform.new
case this_os 
  when "Windows"
    obj.windows
  when "Unix"
    obj.unix
end

Just a random thought.

Hal

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