[Wtr-general] OT: anyone know Ruby Facets?

[Dave Burt]

Chris McMahon wrote:
> http://facets.rubyforge.org/
> 
> Looks like some interesting things, I just wondered if anyone here has
> experience with it/them?

Yes, they're rather cool.

A lot of useful stuff, interesting stuff, and well-organised and
-written. A lot of stuff that subsumes standard Ruby idioms (e.g.
array.at_rand instead of the idiomatic array[rand(array.size)]).

It includes a lot of eminently reinventable wheels (e.g. combinations
and permutations of arrays).

Its Symbol#to_proc is moving into core ruby in version 1.9.

Cheers,
Dave