From: Yehuda Katz <wycats@...>
Date: 2009-02-22T13:30:48+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:22323] Re: YASNP (Yet Another Selector Namespace Proposal)

The thing is that it's not a *real* block, but that might not matter  
since you can't capture it anyway.

I'd hate for people to think it had closure semantics... Without a  
block, it's analogous to the class, module or def keyword, which are  
perfectly clear. I'm fine either way though.

Sent from my iPhone

On Feb 21, 2009, at 9:35 PM, Aaron Patterson  
<aaron@tenderlovemaking.com> wrote:

> On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 04:34:18AM +0900, Jim Weirich wrote:
>> On Feb 20, 2009, at 8:39 AM, Yehuda Katz wrote:
>>>  - no special namespace keyword; any module can be a namespace
>>
>> +1
>>
>> I like this much better than giving the use command its own block.
>
> +1 as well, but I like the block.  For me, it seems to be more clear  
> as
> to what is going on.
>
>  use Merb::String => String do
>    "bla blah".some_special_merb_only_method
>  end
>
>  "bla blah".some_special_merb_only_method # => doh!  doesn't exist
>
> -- 
> Aaron Patterson
> http://tenderlovemaking.com/
>