[Ruby2c] 2 new blog entries (and 2 questions at the end)

[Ryan Davis]

On Feb 7, 2005, at 1:48 AM, mark sparshatt wrote:

> These don't seem to do the same thing, though. If keepgoing returns 
> false the first time it's called then the first version prints "this 
> is a weird loop" and calls doSomethingWeird twice, while the second 
> one only does it once.

You are totally correct. When refax was originally written ParseTree 
had a bug where it didn't say whether it was a pre-conditioned or 
post-conditioned while/until loop. Now it does, but I haven't released 
the change yet. Should be trivial once Rudi has the new code (but not 
trivial for me since his code is fairly opaque).

> That aside being able to query a method for it's source does seem to 
> be a very good thing(TM). It seems the next step would be to 
> dynamically modify that source.

*nod* Since ParseTree can't write back into the method dictionary, it 
seems like ruby2ruby and an eval is the next best route.

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