From: Tim Pease <tim.pease@...>
Date: 2006-10-26T04:39:30+09:00
Subject: Re: Pass block instead of here document?

On 10/25/06, Morton Goldberg <m_goldberg@ameritech.net> wrote:
> I have a situation where I want to send many messages, one after the
> other, to single object. Instead of writing, say,
>

<snip>

> <pseud-code>
> Foo.new.perform { report; eat 'burger', 'fries'; drink 'beer';
> be_merry }
> </pseud-code>
>

class Foo
  def initialize( &block )
    return unless block_given?
    self.instance_eval &block
  end

  def eat( *args )
    puts args.inspect
  end

  def drink( *args )
    puts args.inspect
  end
end


Foo.new do
  eat 'burger', 'fries'
  drink 'beer'
end

Is that what you are looking for? You can just as easily create a
process method (instead of using the initialize method) to do
something like this ...

f = Foo.new
f.process do
  eat 'burger', 'fries'
  drink 'beer'
end

Blessings,
TwP