Ruby 2.1 returns a symbol when defining a method

Since Ruby 2.1, defining a method returns its name as a Symbol:

def foo() end             # => :foo
define_method :foo do end # => :foo

You can use this to do Python-like decorators like so:

private def foo; end 
memoize def foo; end

Dominik Schöler

Last edit

2014-06-23

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Posted by Dominik Schöler to makandra dev (2014-06-17 17:14)