On 10/18/07, David Chelimsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 10/18/07, Wincent Colaiuta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > El 18/10/2007, a las 18:42, "David Chelimsky" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > escribió:
> >
> > > Easier to type, sure. I'm not in love w/ the names yet though because
> > > they sound like verb phrases - "given matcher", "when matcher", "then
> > > matcher".
> > >
> > > How about something like match_given, match_when, match_then?
> >
> > That would be fine too. I mainly just wanted to avoid having to
> > manually pass the symbol in.
> >
> > Another alternative combining your suggestion with what Pat mentioned:
> >
> > step_matchers do |match|
> >    match.given ...
> >    match.when ...
> >    match.then ...
> > end
>
> That's nice, except we don't want methods named when and then as they
> are keywords :(
>
> We could do match.given, match.event and match.outcome, but that adds
> a mental mapping that we might want to avoid.

I had thought about putting the match method on string, so it becomes
"an addend of $addend".matcher(:given) do {blah blah}

or something similar.  But I don't really like that because I want
"given" to be the first thing on the line.

Pat
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