From: David Alan Black <dblack@...>
Date: 2001-01-09T22:20:41+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:8924] Re: No :<, :>, etc. methods for Array

Hello -

On Tue, 9 Jan 2001, [iso-8859-1] Aleksi Niemel� wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> At least David Alan Black and Ben Tilly have been conversating, the latter's
> last comment being: 
> 
> > Say modules called ArrayInterface, HashInterface and
> > StringInterface.
> >
> > If you want to use it you would have to write []= and so
> > on, but the so-on to get the whole interface would be much
> > smaller than it would be now.
> 
> Ok. I've been following this thread with great interest, but I've been
> somewhat lost. That's mostly due to my quite limited knowledge of Perl Tying
> concept. I always thought it's quite simple, but it's referred everywhere as
> pure magic. Now I guess I got on the map again.

I think the whole Perl tying part of this is not all that relevant.  In
Ruby, right now, it's pretty easy to do everything that a Perl tied class
does.  Standard interface classes could clean things up a little in that
area (mainly by not having unnecessary methods defined), but the basic
ability to do the equivalent of Perl tying is already there.


David

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