From: spooq <spoooq@...>
Date: 2006-11-09T01:01:31+09:00
Subject: Re: #returning and #tap

MenTaLguY's use cases seem the more convincing of the two. Why would I
care about keeping an object anonymous when I'm leaving that scope
anyway? I guess in an inline lambda function it might be appropriate.
'tap' is what it's likely to be used for most of the time. I'd call it
'k', personally, maybe with an alias to 'tap' or 'tee'. I would like
to see it in standard Ruby.

On 11/8/06, Trans <transfire@gmail.com> 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:
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> http://weblog.jamisbuck.org/2006/10/27/mining-activesupport-object-returning
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> Any one else think this is worthy of standard Ruby?
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> Also, a cool twist on the same concept is #tap. Check out the
> MenTaLgeniuS:
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> http://moonbase.rydia.net/mental/blog/programming/eavesdropping-on-expressions.html
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> T.
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