From: "J.Herre" <jlst@...>
Date: 2004-02-21T11:12:20+09:00
Subject: Re: PATCH: OpenStruct#initialize to yield self


On Feb 20, 2004, at 5:59 PM, Joel VanderWerf wrote:

> 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.

Yeah but 'record' still points to the struct just as 'r'

What's the point of?

|  OpenStruct.new do |r|
|    r.name = �John Smith�
|    r.age = 70
|    r.pension = 300
|  end

ie, constructing an orphaned obj