Chris Carter
6/3/2007 3:44:00 PM
On 6/3/07, Peter Seebach <seebs@seebs.net> wrote:
> My solution, which is probably awkward in its use of method mangling:
>
> class Fixnum
> @@old_to_s = 1.method(:to_s).unbind
> def to_s
> s = ((self % 3 == 0 ? "Fizz" : "") + (self % 5 == 0 ? "Buzz" : ""))
> s.empty? ? @@old_to_s.bind(self).call : s
> end
> end
>
> (1..100).each { |x| p x }
>
> I wouldn't be surprised at all to find that there's a much cleaner way
> to accomplish the override. The curious reader will note that this could
> be shortened somewhat if we had something like that "it" feature some
> were discussing.
>
> -s
>
>
My solution (see other thread) uses a lot of those same techniques.
My method was overriding #inspect instead of #to_s, so you don't need
to do anything crazy. Or you could just use an alias... :)
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