From: Florian Gross <flgr@...>
Date: 2005-03-24T00:24:48+09:00
Subject: Re: RCR 296: Destructive methods return self

Douglas Livingstone wrote:

> On Wed, 23 Mar 2005 22:59:49 +0900, Florian Gross <flgr@ccan.de> wrote:
> 
>>form.button.tabgroup.last.(
>>   caption = "Foo"
>>   enabled = true
>>   top -= 5
>>   left += 10
>>   onclick = {
>>     puts "Hello World"
>>   }
>>)
>>
>>Does this sound sensible?
> 
> Could it act like this:
> 
> [...]
> m = Sample.new
> 
> m.{ |self| red = 'read' }
> 
> # or:
> 
> m.do |self|
>   red = 'read'
> end
> 	
> puts m.red  #=> read

While I'm not sure if I prefer this syntax it would still be acceptable.

The most important part IMHO is to make sure that in that context 'foo = 
1' will not be a local variable assignment but rather a setter invocation.

I think I'd still prefer a keyword-based syntax over all this 
punctuation, though.