Re: PATCH: OpenStruct#initialize to yield self

J.Herre wrote:
> 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?

That's true. The point is that in the former case, r goes out of scope 
when the block is done.