From: Chad Fowler <chad@...>
Date: 2003-11-28T12:47:20+09:00
Subject: Re: pre/post question/idea

On Fri, 28 Nov 2003, David A. Black wrote:

# 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.
# 
# 

This is excellent.  I hope there aren't any gotchas that nobody has 
thought of. You're right about the "splicing" thing.  This feels a lot 
more like it's supposed to be a part of Ruby.

+1