From: Joel VanderWerf <vjoel@...>
Date: 2009-05-14T13:27:50+09:00
Subject: Re: [bikeshed] Syntactic sugar idea

Daniel DeLorme wrote:
> It seems that often an object will be passed into a block only to invoke
> a method of that object:
>   arr.map{ |obj| obj.some_method }
> 
> So I had the (weird? stupid?) thought that it would be nice to have some
> syntactic sugar like this:
>   arr.map{ .some_method }
> 
> Does that make any sense?

It would be nice for avoiding instance_eval in DSLs:

@x = 400
@y = 300

config "my window" do
   .width @x
   .height @y
end

but I just don't see how to fit it into ruby...

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