From: "David A. Black" <dblack@...>
Date: 2005-11-02T23:30:21+09:00
Subject: Re: ruby-dev summary 27393-27541

Hi --

On Wed, 2 Nov 2005, Ara.T.Howard wrote:

> On Wed, 2 Nov 2005, David A. Black wrote:
>
>> See my previous post, with an example from Ruby Behaviors.
>
> sure.  but afaikt there is no jcode __object__ in the initial post to call
> methods on.
>
> surely the bare token 'jcode' cannot be it, otherwise
>
>  using jcode
>
>  jcode = 42
>
> would have disaterous effects.  hopefully it would, in fact, be

I guess part of my problem here is that I think "using" is the wrong
word, unless it's before a block.  Otherwise it feels like it's just
dangling:

   Using this namespace, ....

as opposed to:

   Use this namespace!

or

   Select this namespace!

But generally, I think having both a block and a non-block way to do
it, rather than just one or the other, makes the most sense.


David

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David A. Black
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