From: Joel VanderWerf <vjoel@...>
Date: 2004-08-27T05:20:00+09:00
Subject: Re: *with* block?

Stefan Schmiedl wrote:
> On Wed, 25 Aug 2004 21:07:01 +0900,
> Mauricio Fern�ndez <batsman.geo@yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
>>On Wed, Aug 25, 2004 at 08:38:19PM +0900, Jim Weirich wrote:
>>
>>>  with obj do |obj|
>>>    obj.x = 1
>>>    obj.y = 2
>>>    # ...
>>>  end
>>
>>hehe nice joke
>>
> 
> 
> but still useful, if you're programming with e.g. FXRuby,
> as you can do something like the following (pseudo-code)
> 
> with FX.create do |parent|
>   FX.create_child(parent)
> end
> 
> and avoid cluttering of local namespace.

...unless parent is already in the namespace. (Of course that may change 
in future ruby.)

But it's a good point anyway. I often define #initialize to 'yield self 
if block_given?', but this version of #with is a way of getting that 
effect without touching initialize. Nice.