On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 8:17 PM, Mark Wilden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 5:57 PM, Brian Takita <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: >> >> I'm wondering if this is a discussion about taste. > > I think you're right. I've been using the 'def self.foo' style in various > languages for almost 20 years, so of course it feels more natural to me. > These languages (except for Smalltalk) had nowhere near the metaprogramming > capability nor 'objects all the way down'-ness of Ruby, and 'class << self' > is one of those things. > > ///ark
FWIW, the blog that led to this discussion suggested a performance impact as well. As RSpec has gotten dinged for being slower than alternatives, that interested me, so I did a little experiment def'ing methods 10k times with def self.method and class << self; def method .... def self.method ran an average of 10% faster. Based on just that, I've all but eliminated class << self from rspec in git. Crazy? _______________________________________________ rspec-users mailing list rspec-users@rubyforge.org http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rspec-users
