From: Florian Gross <flgr@...>
Date: 2005-03-23T22:59:49+09:00
Subject: Re: RCR 296: Destructive methods return self

Trans wrote:

>>Another idea I've had is that, because prefix "." is not allowed in Ruby
>>1.8, it could later serve so that in "a.foo;.bar" the dot-prefix operator
>>would make the method-call on the "syntactically previous" receiver,  that
>>is, a. How "previous" is defined may depend on precedence rules...
> 
> It has also been prposed that ".x" simply imply "self.x". An easier
> notion would simply be:
> 
>   a.(strip!; upcase!)

And this is a very interesting alternative to the a.apply { strip!; 
upcase! } syntax.

I think I like this one as it is paired and thus easier to make the 
connection visually. E.g:

form.button.tabgroup.last.(
   caption = "Foo"
   enabled = true
   top -= 5
   left += 10
   onclick = {
     puts "Hello World"
   }
)

Does this sound sensible?