Re: PATCH: OpenStruct#initialize to yield self

On Feb 20, 2004, at 4:33 PM, Joel VanderWerf wrote:

>> |  record = OpenStruct.new do |r|
>> |    r.name = "John Smith"
>> |    r.age = 70
>> |    r.pension = 300
>> |  end
>> How much benefit do you get from this than
>>   r = OpenStruct.new
>>   r.name = "John Smith"
>>   r.age = 70
>>   r.pension = 300
>> ?  Bit of readability?
>
> Someone mentioned before that it lets you construct an object that can 
> be GC-ed as soon as initialize is done. FWIW.
>

Neither of these cases would gc until the local went out of scope or 
was cleared?  What am I missing?

In these case that you don't really want what your creating wouldn't
    OpenStruct.new
be more efficient than
    OpenStruct.new {}
anyway?