From: James Edward Gray II <james@...>
Date: 2006-11-08T23:53:41+09:00
Subject: Re: #returning and #tap

On Nov 8, 2006, at 8:40 AM, Trans wrote:

> Had use for this today: #returning is a convenience method you'll find
> in both Facets and ActiveSupport. Jamis' blogged it the other day:
>
>
> http://weblog.jamisbuck.org/2006/10/27/mining-activesupport-object- 
> returning
>
> Any one else think this is worthy of standard Ruby?
>
> Also, a cool twist on the same concept is #tap. Check out the
> MenTaLgeniuS:
>
>
> http://moonbase.rydia.net/mental/blog/programming/eavesdropping-on- 
> expressions.html

One of the comments to the original article combines both methods  
into a with() method that seems to be the best of both worlds.

James Edward Gray II