instance_eval is evil. Lee Hambley -- http://lee.hambley.name/ +49 (0) 170 298 5667
On 22 July 2013 11:26, Graham Ashton <[email protected]> wrote: > On 22 Jul 2013, at 10:14, Francis Fish <[email protected]> wrote: > > > with bus do > > tell :turn_on > > tell :add_leaves > > end > > > > With the kettle/teapot listeners doing some pattern matching ... or you > could just use Erlang ;-) > > What are people's thoughts on the fact that inside that block, self has > been changed? > > When first seeing code like this I thought "hey, that's really clean - > nice". > > Then I ran into all sorts of trouble with in a couple of projects that I'd > used that invoked the pattern, and went off it rather quickly. > > I recall Pragdave is of a similar view; he doesn't feel that redefining > self inside a block is considered great practice. I'm not sure exactly > where I came across his thoughts on it, but it was probably in one of these > videos: > > > http://pragprog.com/screencasts/v-dtrubyom/the-ruby-object-model-and-metaprogramming > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "NWRUG" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nwrug-members. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NWRUG" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nwrug-members. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
