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Clojure-inspired syntax sugar for Ruby lambdas
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module Enumerable | |
def self.classes | |
ObjectSpace.each_object(Module).select { |m| m.include?(Enumerable) } | |
end | |
end | |
module LambdaSugar | |
require 'active_support' | |
require 'active_support/core_ext/module' | |
def self.included(base) | |
base.class_eval do | |
methods = Enumerable.instance_methods.reject { |m| m == :include? } | |
methods.map(&:to_s).each do |meth| | |
special_characters = %w(! ?) | |
punctuation = special_characters.include?(meth[-1]) ? meth[-1] : "" | |
method_name = meth.delete(special_characters.join(",")) | |
sugared = "#{method_name}_with_sugar#{punctuation}" | |
desugared = "#{method_name}_without_sugar#{punctuation}" | |
define_method(sugared) do |p = nil, &block| | |
return send(desugared, &block) unless lambda_sugar?(p) | |
send(desugared) { |x| eval(p.gsub("%", "x")) } | |
end | |
alias_method_chain meth, :sugar | |
end | |
end | |
private | |
def predicate_or_bang?(meth) | |
return false unless meth.end_with?("?") || meth.end_with?("!") | |
meth[-1] | |
end | |
def lambda_sugar?(arg) | |
"#{arg}".include?("%") | |
end | |
end | |
end | |
Enumerable.classes.each { |klass| klass.send(:include, LambdaSugar) } | |
p [1,2,3].map("% * 2") | |
p [1,2,3].map("-%") | |
p [2,4,6].map { |x| x * 2 } | |
p 1.upto(10).drop_while("% < 5") | |
p 1.upto(10).partition("% > 5") | |
p 1.upto(10).partition("% > 5") | |
p 1.upto(10).reject("% == 1") | |
__END__ | |
~$ ruby enumerable.rb | |
[2, 4, 6] | |
[-1, -2, -3] | |
[4, 8, 12] | |
[5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10] | |
[[6, 7, 8, 9, 10], [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]] | |
[[6, 7, 8, 9, 10], [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]] | |
[2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10] |
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