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“” Seems to me you went to an awful lot of trouble just to end up with:

def do_tricks(&b)
instance_eval(&b)
end

Where did you stumble upon this Proc#bind_to method?trans - February 21, 2010 09:56

“” hi trans. i think it was here that i first found mention of it.

and yeah, definitely for the Dog example, binder is overkill. but if you're developing a large DSL, with all kinds of methods rebinding blocks passed to them to all kinds of closures (not just self), then "bind :some_method, :some_closure" starts to look a little more appealing. or at least it did to me :-) thanks for commenting!moonmaster9000 - February 21, 2010 20:48

“” I'd suggest removing these aliases from Object. You want to be pretty restrained if you extend a core class, like Object. They almost seem specific to your dog example :)


alias_method :ask, :tell
alias_method :teach, :tell
alias_method :beg, :tell
ratbeard - February 23, 2010 00:21

“” Thanks for playing but next time review your code and think it through before you release it to the world. Modifying Object like you have is a really bad idea. Even worse are the aliased methods are not general but specific to your example.AnonymousCritic - February 23, 2010 20:14

“” yeah, good point, i'm removing the ask/teach/beg methods. i still like tell.moonmaster9000 - February 24, 2010 01:52

“” and to the anon troll: the aliased methods were certainly ill-advised (i was mad with power), but monkey-patching Object is valid in certain circumstances: if your intention is to create a new, pervasive language feature (or essentially, a new dialect), then yeah, monkey-patching Object is fair-game. if, however, you didn't intend to pollute the namespace with what amounts to a new reserved word, but instead, to add some functionality that people can opt-in to, then definitely, monkey-patching Object is a bad idea.moonmaster9000 - February 24, 2010 14:16

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