def

[T. Onoma]

what is this def?
it is not a method...?
it is not some sugar...?
well might it be a lambda...?
just what is this def?

(funny we say def for define but not init for initialize)

-t0

 

[gabriele renzi]

what is this def?
it is not a method...?
it is not some sugar...?
well might it be a lambda...?
just what is this def?

a keyword?
well, btw it is also sugar fore define_method()

(funny we say def for define but not init for initialize)

I would have loved init

sidenote: what about that old thread about making def return something
useful ? (I remember that an UnboundMethod was refused, but what about
a Symbol? )

 

[Joel VanderWerf]

what is this def?
it is not a method...?
it is not some sugar...?
well might it be a lambda...?
just what is this def?

(funny we say def for define but not init for initialize)

-t0

It is a special form. Or, to paraphrase the Gateless Gate,

A monk asked Nansen: `Is there a teaching no master ever preached before?'

Nansen said: `Yes, there is.'

`What is it?' asked the monk.

Nansen replied: `It is not a method, it is not some sugar, it is not
lambda.'

(http://www.ibiblio.org/zen/gateless-gate/27.html)

 

[Josef 'Jupp' SCHUGT]

Hi!

* Chad Fowler; 2003-11-15, 21:03 UTC:

?

No.

Just for clarification: That is "no" as in "No, it really isn't", not
"no" as in "No, that is wrong" (which it to my knowledge would mean
in Japanese).

Josef 'Jupp' Schugt

 

[Jim Weirich]

I would have loved init

I'm thinking that Ruby should accept any method that is a one-character
misspelling of initialize as an initializer. Perhaps I'll write an RCR.