Re: BeanShell Dialects: proposal for future syntax extension mechanism... (Patrick Niemeyer)

Imagine, I want to do create something like Ruby's "each":
A method that takes an Iterator or a collection and a "code block":

   each( file, { line |  
                   // do something
               } 
        );

the single method "each" would work, but could I do something like:

   file.each( line | 
                // do something
            );

The syntactic sugar "{"  and "|" is not important, but being able to
implement functions that are not top level functions but methods of an
object?

Would I have to do something like:

eachLineInFile( self, { ... } );
file.each = eachLineInFile();


Victor



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