On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 4:28 PM, Scott Taylor
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> On Nov 28, 2008, at 11:52 AM, David Chelimsky wrote:
>
>> 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
>> ....
>>
>
> I'd be curious to see those benchmarks.
Here are some benchmarks I did.
>
> Also - re: performance: I've always wondered why RSpec (and other ruby
> projects, for that matter) aren't using Kernel#autoload instead of
> Kernel#require. If we used autoload, we wouldn't have to load the code
> for, say, a matcher which is never used in a project.
>
> Scott
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