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Created March 22, 2012 15:57
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Incredibly stupid Ruby tricks. Please add more.
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stupid.rb
# The worst possible way to memoize something.
class X
def value
@value = really_expensive_operation
def value; @value end
@value
end
end
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rkh commented Mar 22, 2012

Tilt actually does this.

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rue commented Mar 22, 2012

But that's an awesome way to memoize…

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@rkh Yeah! That may even have been where I've seen it recently.

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