ampex 2.0.0 → 3.0.0

data/README.markdown

@@ -35,6 +35,15 @@ You can use this in any place a block is expected, for example to create a lambd
     normalizer.call :HelloWorld
       # => "helloworld"
 
+Last but definitly not least you can use ampex in a case clause:
+
+    case something
+    when X.respond_to? :foo
+      something.foo
+    when X.respond_to? :[]
+      something['foo']
+    end
+
 Gotchas
 -------
 
@@ -83,10 +92,14 @@ Between version 1.2.1 and version 2.0.0, the support for assignment operations w
 ampex. These had a very non-obvious implementation, and it was impossible to support
 assigning of falsey values; and did not work on rubinius.
 
+Between version 2.0.0 and 3.0.0 Metavariable#=== was implemented to provide case statement
+support. This will break code that was expecting `&(X === foo)` to work.
+
 See also
 --------
 
-* <https://cirw.in/blog/ampex> — a blog post that describes the ideas.
+* <http://cirw.in/blog/ampex> — a blog post that describes the ideas.
+* <https://github.com/raganwald/homoiconic/blob/master/2012/05/anaphora.md#anaphora-in-ruby-2012-edition> — a detailed overview of all similar libraries available for Ruby.
 * <https://github.com/danielribeiro/RubyUnderscore> — which uses an underscore in place of `&X` and works by rewriting the syntax tree.
 * <https://gist.github.com/1224361> — a patch for Rubinius that enables the underscore in a similar way.
 * <http://blog.railsware.com/2012/03/13/ruby-2-0-enumerablelazy/> — The upcoming lazy enumerable support for Ruby 2.0.

data/lib/ampex.rb

@@ -23,6 +23,19 @@ class Metavariable < superclass
     @to_proc = block || ::Proc.new{|x| x}
   end
 
+  # This method is here so that a metavariable can be used as a target for "when" like this:
+  #
+  #   case foo
+  #   when X.respond_to? :bar
+  #     "Responds to :bar"
+  #   when X.respond_to? :foobar
+  #     "Responds to :foobar"
+  #   end
+  #
+  def ===(y)
+    !!to_proc.call(y)
+  end
+
   # Each time a method is called on a Metavariable, we want to create a new
   # Metavariable that is like the last but does something more.
   #
@@ -42,7 +55,7 @@ class Metavariable < superclass
   # BlankSlate and BasicObject have different sets of methods that you don't want.
   # let's remove them all.
   instance_methods.each do |method|
-    undef_method method unless %w(method_missing to_proc __send__ __id__).include? method.to_s
+    undef_method method unless %w(method_missing to_proc __send__ __id__ ===).include? method.to_s
   end
 end
 

metadata

@@ -1,13 +1,13 @@
 --- !ruby/object:Gem::Specification 
 name: ampex
 version: !ruby/object:Gem::Version 
-  hash: 15
+  hash: 7
   prerelease: 
   segments: 
-  - 2
+  - 3
   - 0
   - 0
-  version: 2.0.0
+  version: 3.0.0
 platform: ruby
 authors: 
 - Conrad Irwin
@@ -15,7 +15,8 @@ autorequire:
 bindir: bin
 cert_chain: []
 
-date: 2012-05-20 00:00:00 Z
+date: 2012-09-27 00:00:00 -07:00
+default_executable: 
 dependencies: 
 - !ruby/object:Gem::Dependency 
   name: blankslate
@@ -43,6 +44,7 @@ files:
 - lib/ampex.rb
 - README.markdown
 - LICENSE.MIT
+has_rdoc: true
 homepage: http://github.com/rapportive-oss/ampex
 licenses: []
 
@@ -72,7 +74,7 @@ required_rubygems_version: !ruby/object:Gem::Requirement
 requirements: []
 
 rubyforge_project: 
-rubygems_version: 1.8.21
+rubygems_version: 1.6.2
 signing_key: 
 specification_version: 3
 summary: Provides a meta-variable X which can be used to create procs more prettily