From: "David A. Black" <dblack@...>
Date: 2008-09-07T02:23:11+09:00
Subject: Re: Request for Block local methods, and Proc syntax

Hi --

On Sun, 7 Sep 2008, Patrick Li wrote:

> I think we need a way to preserve the scope elegantly, so that methods
> and instance variables can still be accessed.
>
> The solutions posted so far are all pretty fragile still.

It sounds like you want some kind of bifurcation of self, so that
instance variables are resolved against one object and method calls
against another. I'm not sure how that would work, even theoretically,
and it sounds like it would be more fragile than just yielding an
object to a block.


David

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