From: "David A. Black" <dblack@...>
Date: 2009-02-11T07:42:02+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:21972] Re: [Feature #1122] request for: Object#try

Hi --

On Wed, 11 Feb 2009, Michal Babej wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On Sunday 08 of February 2009 11:58:18 David A. Black wrote:
>> It's a bit punctuation-heavy but I think it's preferable. Of course
>> the whole thing leaves the question of how to handle ambiguous nils
> You could slightly modify it to be
>
> foo.?bar(*args) : &block
>
> as a syntax sugar to:
>
> foo.respond?(:bar) ? foo.bar(args) : yield args
>
> Or something similar... though i'd probably look awful if you wanted to pass a
> block to foo.bar :)

Sorry but that's syntactic vinegar :-)


David

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