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No discussion of meta-programming? Can you duplicate the Ruby tricks in JavaScript?

• jrockway 18y ago
  the Ruby tricks? Why couldn't you? You have anonymous functions in JavaScript, that's as much metaprogramming capability as you get in Ruby. (Notably absent from both are macros.)
  • raganwald 18y ago
    Well, you are obviously right about JS having anonymous functions. In addition to anonymous functions, Ruby also has a very late-binding object and class system borrowed from SmallTalk that also--to the Java or C# programmer--looks like trickery. This can be built on top of JS, of course, but I also recall Object Assembler ;-)
  • tlrobinson 18y ago
    JavaScript doesn't have "method_missing" (but Objective-J does! It's called "forwardInvocation")