From: "David A. Black" <dblack@...>
Date: 2003-11-28T11:32:31+09:00
Subject: pre/post question/idea

Hello --

As we're still pre-2.0, and talking about pre and post, I thought I'd
throw in a bit of possible syntax for this that occurred to me, namely
this:

  class C
    def x
      puts "how are you?"
    end

    pre x
      puts "hello"
    end

    post x
      puts "goodbye"
    end
  end

It's possible that there are problems with doing it this way that I'm
not seeing, but personally I like the way it looks better than

  def x:pre

which to me has a bit of a "spliced onto the language" feel (which
perhaps it is, but it would still be nice to avoid that feel :-)  I
like the simplicity and symmetry of separate def/pre/post.


David

-- 
David A. Black
dblack@wobblini.net