From: shyouhei@... Date: 2017-05-17T01:41:45+00:00 Subject: [ruby-core:81206] [Ruby trunk Feature#13559] Change implementation of Feature #6721 Issue #13559 has been updated by shyouhei (Shyouhei Urabe). Well, I know everyone don't like the name yield_self but, it seems that's a separate issue than this one. Can we focus? I guess we need another 5 years to find an "ideal" name of it and that's too off topic to what is requested here. ---------------------------------------- Feature #13559: Change implementation of Feature #6721 https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/13559#change-64859 * Author: dunrix (Damon Unrix) * Status: Feedback * Priority: Normal * Assignee: * Target version: ---------------------------------------- Hi, please reconsider implementation of feature request #6721 planned for Ruby 2.5.0 . Instead of introducing new method `Object#yield_self`, just reuse existing `Object#itself` by taking an optional block argument. Find it much clearer and more logical solution, not superfluous polluting of API space. `Object#itself` just returns target object, optional block would return alternative value with target object passed as block argument. Prototyped sol. in Ruby: ~~~ruby class Object def itself block_given? ? yield(self) : self end end ~~~ Not aware of any case, where it would break backward compatibility. -- https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/ Unsubscribe: