From: Jim Weirich <jim@...>
Date: 2006-02-09T09:46:16+09:00
Subject: Re: how to do instance_eval with arguments

Yukihiro Matsumoto wrote:
> <jim@weirichhouse.org> writes:
> |
> |I'm prototyping a DSL and came across a situtation where I have a lambda 
> |that I would like to give to instance_eval, but the lambda takes 
> |arguments.  Instance_eval will not supply any arguments when evaluating 
> |the lambda and I don't see a straightforward way around this.
> |
> |Any suggestions?
> 
> CVS HEAD (1.9) has instance_exec method that works exactly what you
> want.

Excellent!  I think Matz's time machine is every bit as good as 
Guido's[1].

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[1] http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/G/Guido.html

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