On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 9:26 PM, Joel Pearson <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks for the advice and examples, I'll see whether I can understand > how the classes and methods work with each other there and set about > experimenting with them.
I didn't put commenting in the gist. If there's anything unclear feel free to ask. > Once thing which put me off generating a custom class "from scratch" is > that Array appears to be equal to its content (I assume this is a > language shortcut), but it seems "custom" objects' values have to be > accessed via their accessors. > I was hoping for some more succinct syntax than this sort of thing: > puts [] #Array is so easy to create > puts CustomObject.new([]).value #This looks clunky next to that You can get quite close, for example you can do def M(*a) YourCustomMatrix.new(a) end # use M(1,2,3,4) or M = Object.new def M.[](*a) YourCustomMatrix.new(a) end # use M[1,2,3,4] > I'd love to get accustomed proper OO thinking, but I'll inevitably make > all the rookie mistakes in the process. Yes, it will take time. Mistakes are what you will learn from. Given that, I should probably shut up and let you make your personal mistakes. :-) > It's a lot to get used to all at > once given that I've been using Ruby for less than a year, and I have no > training other than helpful hints and googling. Thanks again for your > patience. You're welcome! Kind regards robert -- remember.guy do |as, often| as.you_can - without end http://blog.rubybestpractices.com/ -- [email protected] | https://groups.google.com/d/forum/ruby-talk-google?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "ruby-talk-google" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
