From: Stefan Rusterholz <apeiros@...>
Date: 2007-07-21T03:21:53+09:00
Subject: Re: RCR? Added syntax for chains that possibly return nil

Nobuyoshi Nakada wrote:
> In short, same as your proposal.
>   (tmp = h[:a] and tmp[:b])
> can be without the temproray variable:
>   h[:a]&?[:b]
> 
> and
>   h.a and h.a.b
> can be:
>   h.a&?b
> 
> And a followup was to make nil? to take a block which is
> called when the receiver isn't nil.

Ah, interesting, so I'm not the first to propose this :)
What was the reason it was rejected?

Regards
Stefan

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