From: "Ara.T.Howard" <ahoward@...>
Date: 2004-03-15T01:24:35+09:00
Subject: Re: Kernel#y

On Sun, 14 Mar 2004, daz wrote:

> 
> Ara.T.Howard wrote:
> > On Sun, 14 Mar 2004, Joel VanderWerf wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > Two suggestions for Kernel#y:
> > >
> > > 1. Make it private, like Kernel#p.
> > >
> > > 2. Let it take multiple args, like Kernel#p, something like:
> > >
> > > irb> y 1,2,3
> > > --- 1
> > > --- 2
> > > --- 3
> > > => nil
> > >
> > > Anyone see any sense in these?
> > >
> > > I could add
> > >
> > > 3. Tell everyone about it because it's very useful :-)
> >
> > do tell.  'y' for yaml?
> >
> 
> # Create a bunch of stuff:
> ahash = {:a => 1, 'BB' => 2, 7 => 'seven', 'd' => 10}
> astring = RUBY_VERSION + ' ' + RELEASE_DATE
> afloat = Math::PI
> anarray = ['c', 111, Exception.new('Oops')]
> 
> # Bunch it more:
> anarray.push(ahash).push(astring).push(afloat)
> 
> p anarray  #  for comparison
> puts '.'*107, ''
> 
> # See what yaml's y shows
> require 'yaml'  #  <-------------------------#
> y anarray


wow.  very, very cool.

definitely should be changed to

  def y(*args)
    args.each{|a| super a}
  end

though.

-a
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