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andkerosine | 12 years ago

This has no business being at the top of HN.

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Osmium|12 years ago

Why not? Seems pretty damn cool to me.

Edit: didn't realise you were the author :)

andkerosine|12 years ago

As its creator, I would certainly agree. Still, I'd feel bad if some poor soul considered it anything but an interesting demonstration of Ruby's capabilities.

vidarh|12 years ago

It's awesomely cool, but it also defines a global method_missing, which puts you in for a world of pain before even considering the overloaded operators.

It's one of those hacks that are cute and great to play with and awesome proof of concept for new features, but if I saw it in a production codebase, I'd want to strangle someone.

zerr|12 years ago

Not everything has to be related with entrepreneurship. It is a hacker news after all...

EDIT: just realized you're the author, so your comment must be out of modesty. Anyway, it deserves, and kudos to you ;)