From: "David A. Black" <dblack@...>
Date: 2004-03-13T23:53:33+09:00
Subject: Re: long string arguments

Hi --

On Sat, 13 Mar 2004, Thomas Fini Hansen wrote:

> On Sat, Mar 13, 2004 at 09:21:27PM +0900, Elias Athanasopoulos wrote:
> > Hello!
> > 
> > I would like to redirect large chunks of text to a specific
> > resource (file, stderr, etc). I thought that the code below
> > would do my job:
> > 
> > def |>(s)
> >     myputs %Q|#{s}
> > end
> > 
> > def <|
> >     |
> > end
> 
> Well, that doesn't work for a number of reasons. For starters it
> should basically quote "\nend\n...". And I don't think <| and |> are
> valid names...

  a = Object.new
  class << a
    define_method("|>") {|s| puts s }
  end

  a.send("|>", "a string")   # a string

:-)


David

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David A. Black
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