[#2367] Standard libraries — Dave Thomas <dave@...>

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60 messages 2004/02/11

[#2397] PATCH: deprecate cgi-lib, getopts, importenv, parsearg from standard library — Gavin Sinclair <gsinclair@...>

Index: cgi-lib.rb

15 messages 2004/02/12

[#2465] PATCH: OpenStruct#initialize to yield self — Gavin Sinclair <gsinclair@...>

This is a common approach I use to object initialization; I don't know

24 messages 2004/02/19

Re: PATCH: OpenStruct#initialize to yield self

From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2004-02-21 01:20:00 UTC
List: ruby-core #2483
Hi,

In message "Re: PATCH: OpenStruct#initialize to yield self"
    on 04/02/21, Joel VanderWerf <vjoel@PATH.Berkeley.EDU> writes:

|Someone mentioned before that it lets you construct an object that can 
|be GC-ed as soon as initialize is done. FWIW.

What is the benefit of "object that can be GC-ed as soon as initialize
is done", which seems like useless for me?

							matz.

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