From: nobuyoshi nakada <nobuyoshi.nakada@...>
Date: 2005-12-08T16:41:28+09:00
Subject: Re: A small query

Hi,

At Thu, 8 Dec 2005 16:06:24 +0900,
Srinivas Jonnalagadda wrote in [ruby-talk:169525]:
> Object Pascal (at least as provided by Delphi) has a facility to send
> a sequence of messages to the same receiver, using a construct called
> 'with'. If 'obj' is an object with callable methods 'meth1', 'meth2'
> and 'meth3', it is possible to write:
> 
>    with obj do
>      meth1();
>      meth2(param);
>      meth3(param1, param2)
>    end
> 
> Can a similar thing be accomplished in Ruby?

Fortunately, no.  On dynamic languages such as Ruby, it would
cause just confusions if you nested it.

-- 
Nobu Nakada