From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2001-03-05T18:04:37+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:12005] Re: How do I reach members from a Proc?

Hi,

In message "[ruby-talk:12003] Re: How do I reach members from a Proc?"
    on 01/03/05, "Conrad Schneiker" <schneik@us.ibm.com> writes:

|# Can I go for the method name with the most underscores?
|# 
|#     obj#adopt_block_and_call
|# 
|# Although I'm not thrilled with the 'block_and_call' part, I quite
|# like 'adopt' as a word for describing the behavior of instance_eval.
|
|I'm inclined to agree. However, given that instance_eval already
|exists (and will continue to IIUC), how about something more like
|'block_eval_and_call' for PMC (principle of mnemonic consistency) and
|POLS (principle of least shock, err, surprise).

Thinking of what it does (switch the value of self, then evaluate
block, nothing more), these names are too much, I feel..

							matz.