Comment by johnnygood

This is something that has bothered me about my Ruby usage. A lot of the time, I feel like I'm writing "dynamic" code that really just needs to be pre-processed.

  class Cool
    [:ice, :soda, :snow].each do |item|
      define_method item do
        #some code
      end
    end
  end

There isn't a real reason why that couldn't be pre-processed. I don't know a ton of Java, but the idea of compile-time code generation is appealing. Does anyone know more about this?