From: Christian Neukirchen <chneukirchen@...>
Date: 2005-03-21T21:49:00+09:00
Subject: Re: strip and its evil brother strip!

Mathieu Bouchard <matju@sympatico.ca> writes:

> On Sun, 20 Mar 2005, Daniel Amelang wrote:
>
> Smalltalk also has an alternate mechanism at the syntax level, for making
> several methodcalls to a receiver written only once. This makes returning
> self sound even stupider to me in that context. I wish Ruby had a similar
> feature so that methods never have to return systematically self and so
> whenever such a thread appears we could point people to that feature.

+1

> Example (with some extra spaces inserted, and supposing there are methods
> named like that in Smalltalk)
>
>   Smalltalk:   x chop     strip.
>   Ruby:        x.chop!   .strip!
>
>   Smalltalk:   x chop.  x strip.
>   Ruby:        x.chop!; x.strip!
>
>   Smalltalk:   x chop;    strip.
>   Ruby (no equivalent)
>
> In the last version, x is only mentioned once, and the return value of
> chop is discarded. I think it could be nice to have something like that in
> Ruby.

For Ruby2, I'd love to have this too.

> Mathieu Bouchard -=- Montr�al QC Canada -=- http://artengine.ca/matju
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