Literate Chaining Style in Ruby

gistfile1.rb

module Kernel; def c text; self; end; end


puts ARGF.c("all files as text")            .read
         .c("convert to enumerable")        .chars
         .c("contiguous alphas and puncts") .chunk {|ch| ch  =~ /[[:alnum:]]/ ? :alone : true }
         .c("merging identifiers and nums") .map {|key,values| key == :alone ? values.join : values }
         .c("array of idents and puncts")   .flatten(1)
         .c("adding line numbers")          .zip((0...Float::INFINITY))
         .c("formatting")                   .map {|token,line_no| "#{line_no}: #{token_map[token] || token}" }