From: batkins57@...
Date: 2005-12-08T17:07:47+09:00
Subject: Re: A small query

Isn't that sample the same as obj.instance_eval ?

nobuyoshi nakada wrote:
> 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