From: ara.t.howard@...
Date: 2006-11-14T00:43:33+09:00
Subject: Re: returning keyword

On Tue, 14 Nov 2006, S. Robert James wrote:

> I still maintain that this is clever code.  Every new (pseudo)keyword comes
> at a cost, of having to learn (and keep in your head) something new.  They
> have to justify their cost by truly cleaning up the code - and I haven't
> seen an example of that yet.

that is a reasonable thing to say - imho you'd need something like this to do
so


   def factory
     returning Object.new do |o|
       o.property_0 = 'value_0'
       o.property_1 = 'value_1'
       o.property_2 = 'value_2'
       o.property_3 = 'value_3'
       o.property_4 = 'value_4'
       o.property_5 = 'value_5'
       o.property_6 = 'value_6'
       o.property_7 = 'value_7'
       o.property_8 = 'value_8'
       o.property_9 = 'value_9'
       o.property_10 = 'value_10'
       o.property_11 = 'value_11'
       o.property_12 = 'value_12'
       o.property_13 = 'value_13'
       o.property_14 = 'value_14'
       o.property_15 = 'value_15'
       o.property_16 = 'value_16'
       o.property_17 = 'value_17'
       o.property_18 = 'value_18'
       o.property_19 = 'value_19'
       o.property_20 = 'value_20'
       o.property_21 = 'value_21'
       o.property_22 = 'value_22'
       o.property_23 = 'value_23'
       o.property_24 = 'value_24'
       o.property_25 = 'value_25'
       o.property_26 = 'value_26'
       o.property_27 = 'value_27'
       o.property_28 = 'value_28'
       o.property_29 = 'value_29'
       o.property_30 = 'value_30'
       o.property_31 = 'value_31'
       o.property_32 = 'value_32'
       o.property_33 = 'value_33'
       o.property_34 = 'value_34'
       o.property_35 = 'value_35'
       o.property_36 = 'value_36'
       o.property_37 = 'value_37'
       o.property_38 = 'value_38'
       o.property_39 = 'value_39'
       o.property_40 = 'value_40'
       o.property_41 = 'value_41'
       o.property_42 = 'value_42'
       o.property_43 = 'value_43'
       o.property_44 = 'value_44'
       o.property_45 = 'value_45'
       o.property_46 = 'value_46'
       o.property_47 = 'value_47'
       o.property_48 = 'value_48'
       o.property_49 = 'value_49'
       o.property_50 = 'value_50'
       o.property_51 = 'value_51'
       o.property_52 = 'value_52'
       o.property_53 = 'value_53'
       o.property_54 = 'value_54'
       o.property_55 = 'value_55'
       o.property_56 = 'value_56'
       o.property_57 = 'value_57'
       o.property_58 = 'value_58'
       o.property_59 = 'value_59'
       o.property_60 = 'value_60'
       o.property_61 = 'value_61'
       o.property_62 = 'value_62'
       o.property_63 = 'value_63'
       o.property_64 = 'value_64'
       o.property_65 = 'value_65'
       o.property_66 = 'value_66'
       o.property_67 = 'value_67'
       o.property_68 = 'value_68'
       o.property_69 = 'value_69'
       o.property_70 = 'value_70'
       o.property_71 = 'value_71'
       o.property_72 = 'value_72'
       o.property_73 = 'value_73'
       o.property_74 = 'value_74'
       o.property_75 = 'value_75'
       o.property_76 = 'value_76'
       o.property_77 = 'value_77'
       o.property_78 = 'value_78'
       o.property_79 = 'value_79'
       o.property_80 = 'value_80'
       o.property_81 = 'value_81'
       o.property_82 = 'value_82'
       o.property_83 = 'value_83'
       o.property_84 = 'value_84'
       o.property_85 = 'value_85'
       o.property_86 = 'value_86'
       o.property_87 = 'value_87'
       o.property_88 = 'value_88'
       o.property_89 = 'value_89'
       o.property_90 = 'value_90'
       o.property_91 = 'value_91'
       o.property_92 = 'value_92'
       o.property_93 = 'value_93'
       o.property_94 = 'value_94'
       o.property_95 = 'value_95'
       o.property_96 = 'value_96'
       o.property_97 = 'value_97'
       o.property_98 = 'value_98'
       o.property_99 = 'value_99'
       o.property_100 = 'value_100'
       o.property_101 = 'value_101'
       o.property_102 = 'value_102'
       o.property_103 = 'value_103'
       o.property_104 = 'value_104'
       o.property_105 = 'value_105'
       o.property_106 = 'value_106'
       o.property_107 = 'value_107'
       o.property_108 = 'value_108'
       o.property_109 = 'value_109'
       o.property_110 = 'value_110'
       o.property_111 = 'value_111'
       o.property_112 = 'value_112'
       o.property_113 = 'value_113'
       o.property_114 = 'value_114'
       o.property_115 = 'value_115'
       o.property_116 = 'value_116'
       o.property_117 = 'value_117'
       o.property_118 = 'value_118'
       o.property_119 = 'value_119'
       o.property_120 = 'value_120'
       o.property_121 = 'value_121'
       o.property_122 = 'value_122'
       o.property_123 = 'value_123'
       o.property_124 = 'value_124'
       o.property_125 = 'value_125'
       o.property_126 = 'value_126'
       o.property_127 = 'value_127'
     end
   end

-a
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