From: "Jan-Erik R." <badboy@...>
Date: 2009-01-08T23:15:45+09:00
Subject: Re: Does instance_eval passes self as block argument?

LAMBEAU Bernard schrieb:
> Ruby's documentation of instance_eval shows the "signature" of instance_eval as:
> 
> obj.instance_eval {| | block } => obj
> 
> I assume that the block should not take any argument. However, if I
> write the following code:
> 
> class A
>   def sayhello(who)
>     puts "hello #{who}: #{object_id}"
>   end
> end
> 
> A.new.instance_eval do |who|
>   sayhello("me")
>   who.sayhello("who")
> end
> 
> it prints "hello me: -605850598" then  "hello who: -605850598"
> 
> Is is guaranteed to work??
> 
> blambeau
> 

should be, because it's documented. Not in the code-example but in the text:
   In order to set the context, the variable self is set to obj while the
   code is executing, giving the code access to obj‘s instance variables.