From: "Mauricio Fernández" <mfp@...>
Date: 2005-11-03T02:35:07+09:00
Subject: Re: ruby-dev summary 27393-27541

On Thu, Nov 03, 2005 at 01:32:47AM +0900, Austin Ziegler wrote:
> > > How about block level?
> > >
> > >    using jcode do
> > >      p "\244\242\244\244".chop
> > >    end
> >
> > I had asked Shugo the question in [ruby-dev:27419], and his
> > answer is that he prefers one-line construct, since he doesn't
> > like to deepen indent level more.
> 
> Yes, but there may be cases where one has a number of operations that
> one needs to make with a selector namespace. I think that the *option*
> for "using jcode do...end" is a good thing.

IIRC from the original thread (around [ruby-dev:27421]), a
  using jcode
expression would activate the namespace until the end of some "syntactical
feature" (such as the end of the current method/class).

-- 
Mauricio Fernandez