From: Austin Ziegler <austin@...>
Date: 2004-02-20T14:59:53+09:00
Subject: Re: Change to #new (was OpenStruct#initialize to yield self)

On Fri, 20 Feb 2004 11:28:58 +0900, Dave Thomas wrote:
> On Feb 19, 2004, at 18:37, Austin Ziegler wrote:
>> Ugh. I'm not sure that I like that.
> I'm not sure you'd notice any difference. If your constructors used a
> block, then they'd already have code to deal with it. If they didn't,
> then there'd be no change in behavior.

class Bar < Foo
  def initialize(*args, &blk)
    super
    instance_eval(blk)
  end
end

Would the presence of &blk immediately make super pretend to be super {}?

I have code that does the "yield self" and follows your original suggestion 
of instance_eval for private methods.

-austin
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software designer * pragmatic programmer * 2004.02.20
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