From: Florian Gross <flgr@...>
Date: 2005-03-22T22:04:55+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] Ruby Facets 0.6.2

Daniel Amelang wrote:

>>with("foo") { reverse } # "oof"
> 
> Perhaps I'm confused with your example because it's contrived (on
> purpose, I know), but the above makes little sense. It's just a long
> way of saying 'foo.reverse'. Or did you mean to use 'reverse!'
> 
> This is the way I understood how 'with' would work:
> 
> s = "hello"
> with(s) {
>   reverse!
>   capitalize!
> }
> p s # Olleh
> 
> I'm actually not a big fan of the 'with' idea, or the Object.new {}
> one, but I really like 'count'. Could have used it several times the
> past couple months.

I decided to return the last value of the block as that works in both 
cases. Just add a self:

with(s) {
   reverse!
   capitalize!
   self
}