From: Austin Ziegler <austin@...>
Date: 2004-02-20T05:12:56+09:00
Subject: Re: Change to #new (was OpenStruct#initialize to yield self)

On Fri, 20 Feb 2004 02:42:00 +0900, Dave Thomas wrote:
> 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
> 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).

How would it be overridden?

-austin
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austin ziegler    * austin@halostatue.ca * Toronto, ON, Canada
software designer * pragmatic programmer * 2004.02.19
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