From: Morton Goldberg <m_goldberg@...>
Date: 2006-10-26T14:29:03+09:00
Subject: Re: Pass block instead of here document?

On Oct 25, 2006, at 8:45 PM, Ken Bloom wrote:

> On Thu, 26 Oct 2006 04:31:31 +0900, Gavin Kistner wrote:
>
>> From: Morton Goldberg [mailto:m_goldberg@ameritech.net]
>>> I'd rather pass in a block. Is there a way to do that? Something  
>>> like:
>>>
>>> <pseud-code>
>>> module Kernel
>>>     def tell(obj, &to_do)
>>>        # what goes here?
>>>     end
>>> end
>>>
>>> tell Foo.new do
>>>     report
>>>     eat 'burger', 'fries'
>>>     drink 'beer'
>>>     be_merry
>>> end
>>> </pseud-code>
>>
>> def tell( obj, &to_do )
>>   obj.instance_eval( &to_do )
>> end
>
> Heck. Why bother with tell in the first place? Why not call  
> instance_eval
> directly?

Syntactic sugar. I guess I have a sweet tooth.

Regards, Morton