From: Dave Thomas <dave@...>
Date: 2004-02-20T02:42:00+09:00
Subject: Change to #new (was OpenStruct#initialize to yield self)


On Feb 19, 2004, at 6:50, Gavin Sinclair wrote:

> This is a common approach I use to object initialization; I don't know
> about other people.  Thought it was worth mentioning it here.  It
> allows code like the following:
>
>   record = OpenStruct.new do |r|
>     r.name = "John Smith"
>     r.age = 70
>     r.pension = 300
>   end

<< patch chopped >>


As more general suggestion. Could 'new' yield the new object is a block 
is given? This behavior could then be overridden by the classes where 
this isn't appropriate (such as hash).


Cheers

Dave