From: dblack@...
Date: 2006-11-14T01:25:56+09:00
Subject: Re: returning keyword

Hi --

On Tue, 14 Nov 2006, ara.t.howard@noaa.gov wrote:

> 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'
                   ^^
Wow, you must feel very strongly about this :-)


David

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