From: nobu@...
Date: 2015-03-07T02:14:06+00:00
Subject: [ruby-core:68452] [Ruby trunk - Feature #10883] Passing a block to	itself

Issue #10883 has been updated by Nobuyoshi Nakada.


Why `itself` doesn't return itself?
It seems very confusing.

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Feature #10883: Passing a block to itself
https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/10883#change-51800

* Author: Damien Robert
* Status: Open
* Priority: Normal
* Assignee: 
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In the discussion of [itself](https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/6373)
some people proposed that passing a block to itself could return the value of the block:

~~~
def itself
  if block_given?
    yield self
  else
    self
  end
end
~~~

It would be very usefull in method chains

~~~~
#this would allow
an_array.foo.bar.itself {|x| x[1..x.length-1]}.baz
#which flows better than
a=an_array.foo.bar
a[1..a.length-1].baz
~~~~



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