One-line function definitions

ruby-talk
1

I'm converting some code from Python to Ruby and can't figure out the syntax
for one-line function definitions in Ruby. For example, what would this line
be in Ruby?

def GetAnthologyTitle ( data , prefix ): return GetField ( data , prefix ,
'ANTHOLOGY-TITLE' )

Mike Steiner

2

Transliterated (counting cultural differences), it owuld become:

def antology_title (data, prefix); get_field(data, prefix,
'ANTHOLOGY-TITLE'); end

But more importantly, it probably wouldn't exist, since ruby culture
sees explicit getters/setters as repeating yourself and finds
meta-solutions, a-la attr_accessor or def_delegator.

Aur

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On 6/18/07, Mike Steiner <mikejaysteiner@gmail.com> wrote:

I'm converting some code from Python to Ruby and can't figure out the syntax
for one-line function definitions in Ruby. For example, what would this line
be in Ruby?

def GetAnthologyTitle ( data , prefix ): return GetField ( data , prefix ,
'ANTHOLOGY-TITLE' )

Mike Steiner

3

def foo(x) x*x end
def bar(x) x-102 end
def jim(x) y=foo(x); bar(y) end
p jim(12)
#=> 42

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On 6/18/07, Mike Steiner <mikejaystei...@gmail.com> wrote:

I'm converting some code from Python to Ruby and can't figure out the syntax
for one-line function definitions in Ruby. For example, what would this line
be in Ruby?

def GetAnthologyTitle ( data , prefix ): return GetField ( data , prefix ,
'ANTHOLOGY-TITLE' )