... building my own end-fix statements

Ruby
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I believe it’s possible to define my own end-fix qualifiers like “if”
and “unless” …

Can anybody provide code examples for defining such a construct in Ruby?

For instance :

x.doSomething() when x.ready?

which would call x.ready? repeatedly until it returned a true then
would call x.doSomething()

… I know I could do

while( not x.ready? )
sleep 0.5
wend

x.doSomething()

but I’d rather not.

even a

when( x.ready? ) { |result| x.doSomething() } would be fine I guess
… but wouldn’t work because x.ready? would be precalculated before
when gets to it… so it wouldn’t ever change… I basically need to
be able to pass two blocks if I were to do this …

when( isReadyProc, bodyProc ) … or something like that.

Any ideas ???

–jw.

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On Jun 9, 2006, at 1:44 PM, Jeff W. wrote:

which would call x.ready? repeatedly until it returned a true then
but I’d rather not.
Any ideas ???

–jw.

Hey Jeff-

You can use until for this. Here is a contrived example:

irb(main):001:0> class X
irb(main):002:1> def initialize
irb(main):003:2> @foo = 0
irb(main):004:2> end
irb(main):005:1> attr_reader :foo
irb(main):006:1> def increment
irb(main):007:2> @foo += 1
irb(main):008:2> end
irb(main):009:1>
irb(main):010:1* def ready?
irb(main):011:2> @foo == 50
irb(main):012:2> end
irb(main):013:1> end
=> nil
irb(main):014:0>
irb(main):015:0* x = X.new
=> #<X:0x337c6c @foo=0>
irb(main):016:0> x.increment until x.ready?
=> nil
irb(main):017:0> puts x.foo
50

Cheers-
-Ezra

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until and while are similar enough, but not ‘when’ …

I see that you are saying I could get away with two statements …

sleep 0.5 until a.ready?
a.doSomething

… but I’m still looking for that one layer deeper.

a.doSomething when a.ready?

… anyways … thanks for the info … hadn’t seen until

–jw.

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On Jun 9, 2006, at 2:49 PM, Jeff W. wrote:

a.doSomething when a.ready?

So maybe something more like this:

class X

def initialize
@foo = 0
end
def ready?
@foo += 1
@foo = 50
end

end

def _when(condition, &block)
until condition.ready?
sleep 0.1
end
block.call
end

x = X.new

_when(x) { puts “It’s Ready!” }

#=> It’s Ready!

when is already a keyword so you will have to come up with a better

name but this kind of does what you want.

-Ezra

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On Jun 9, 2006, at 2:36 PM, Ezra Z. wrote:

irb(main):011:2> @foo == 50

Cheers-
-Ezra

Actually I totally misread your question Jeff. Sorry ;)

-Ezra

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On Jun 9, 2006, at 11:49 PM, Jeff W. wrote:

… anyways … thanks for the info … hadn’t seen until

Maybe observer.rb will fit your needs? Can you give a more specific
example of what you would like to do?

require ‘observer’

class HomelandSecurityAdvisorySystem
def initialize
@level = “LOW”
end
include Observable
attr_reader :level
def level=(new_level)
changed()
notify_observers(new_level)
@level = new_level
end
end

class LevelNotifier
def update(level)
case level
when “LOW”
puts “Everything is ok.”
when “GUARDED”
puts “Uh oh”
when “ELEVATED”
puts “Watch FOX for the most up-to-date info”
when “HIGH”
puts “We’re not fear-mongering.”
when “SEVERE”
puts “You’re dead”
end
end
end

x = HomelandSecurityAdvisorySystem.new
x.add_observer(LevelNotifier.new)
x.level = “ELEVATED”
x.level = “SEVERE”

– Daniel

7

Yeah, that’s a lot closer to what I was thinking.

thanks… Had forgotten about doing a . after the block … really
darn’d close.

–jw.

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On Jun 9, 2006, at 4:44 PM, Jeff W. wrote:

which would call x.ready? repeatedly until it returned a true then
but I’d rather not.
Any ideas ???

–jw.

I called it “after” since when is a keyword:

% cat after.rb
class After
def initialize(&block)
@test = block
end

def do
until @test.call
sleep 0.5
end

 yield

end
end

module Kernel
private
def after(&block)
After.new(&block)
end
end

class X
def initialize
@x = 0
end

def ready?
if @x == 10
true
else
@x += 1
false
end
end
end

x = X.new
after { x.ready? }.do {
puts “x is finally ready!”
}

% ruby after.rb
x is finally ready!