From: "ara.t.howard" <ara.t.howard@...>
Date: 2007-11-13T04:17:46+09:00
Subject: Re: alias_method :tap, :affect


On Nov 12, 2007, at 11:38 AM, Rick DeNatale wrote:

>    a = MyObject.new.tap do |o|  # or returning, or affect
>         o.foo = 1
>         o.bar = "whatever"
>    end

just as easy to do this though:

a = MyObject.new.instance_eval{
   foo 1
   bar 'whatever'
   self
}

no special methods needed...

returning is, imho, over rated.

cheers.

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