From: "David A. Black" <dblack@...>
Date: 2003-11-28T12:29:10+09:00
Subject: Re: pre/post question/idea

Hi --

On Fri, 28 Nov 2003, David Naseby wrote:

> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: David A. Black [mailto:dblack@wobblini.net]
> >  class C
> >    def x
> >      puts "how are you?"
> >    end
> >
> >    pre x
> >      puts "hello"
> >    end
> >
> >    post x
> >      puts "goodbye"
> >    end
> >  end
> >
> I agree that it looks better, but my eyes completely skipped over the
> replacement def's. I thought you were just def-ing the same thing 3 times,
> and were depending on order to distinguish them, which is obviously a silly
> idea.
> 
> Nothing against this idea, just noting how my brain reads Ruby code right
> now. The x:*** syntax screams special case to me, and this doesn't.

My concern is that, as people get used to doing this, x:*** will cease
to be a special case, but will still look like one :-)


David

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David A. Black
dblack@wobblini.net