Protean

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DESCRIPTION

Prototype-based Object-Oriented programming with Ruby.

FEATURES/ISSUES

This is a highly expirmental library.
It is also a very small library.

RELEASE NOTES

Please see RELEASE file.

SYNOPSIS

Using Protean you can create objects simple by defining their attributes via instance variables. Functional attributes are defined using fn.

    require 'protean'

    person = prototype do
      @name = ''
      @age = 0
      @announce = fn { |x| "#{x}, #{name} is #{age}." }
    end

    person.name = 'Tom'
    person.age = 35

    person.announce['Peter']  #=> "Peter, Tom is 35."

You can create prototype objects in this manner, then to get new objects use new, which effectively clones the prototype.

    another_person = person.new

HOW TO INSTALL

Describe your installation procedure here.

To install with RubyGems simply open a console and type:

  gem install protean

Local installation requires Setup.rb (gem install setup), then download the tarball package and type:

  tar -xvzf protean-1.0.0.tgz
  cd protean-1.0.0
  sudo setup.rb all

Windows users use ‘ruby setup.rb all’.

COPYING

This program is ditributed unser the terms of the LGPLv3 license.

See LICENSE file for details.

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