From: Gregory Brown <gregory.t.brown@...>
Date: 2007-08-14T02:19:56+09:00
Subject: Re: Prototype (the real thing from Ara) problem.

On 8/13/07, Wayne E. Seguin <wayneeseguin@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Aug 13, 2007, at 13:05 , ara.t.howard wrote:
> > On Aug 12, 2007, at 3:34 PM, Robert Dober wrote:
> >
> >> after my primitive research and my *very slow* implementation of
> >> Prototypes ...
> >
> > btw - i've learned something since my initial implementation:
> >
> > obj = Object.new.instance_eval do
> >
> >   @var = 42
> >
> >   def method
> >     @var
> >   end
> >
> >   self
> > end
> >
> > i was quite suprised that it worked - it would be interesting to
> > play with that in the context of a prototype impl.
> >
> > cheers.
> >
> > a @ http://drawohara.com/
>
> What does the self at the end accomplish?

it returns the object.  See this example:

>> a = Object.new.instance_eval { 2 }
=> 2
>> a
=> 2

>> a = Object.new.instance_eval { self }
=> #<Object:0x2c01d70>