From: gabriele renzi <rff_rff@...>
Date: 2004-11-15T04:58:26+09:00
Subject: Re: I guess "obj.attr = arg" methods don't allow blocks... (maybe rcr?)

Sam Roberts ha scritto:

> Does this conflict with some kind of basic rule in the grammer?
> 
> Could it be an RCR, or is just wrong-headed? :-)
> 
> I want to assign into an object, but I want to take a proc as an arg, so
> that the assignment can be "paramaterized" in some sense, like;
> 
> # Usually:
> card.email = "user@example.com"
> 
> # Sometimes:
> card.email = "user@example.com" do |e|
>   e.type = 'preferred'
>   e.protocol = 'uucp'
>   e.location = 'work'
> end
> 
> It doesn't seem to be allowed, I did a quick test:

I don't know what's going on, but I'd ask:
why don't you use an Email class and write:
  card.email = Email.new('user@foo') {block}

it seem much more clean to me..