From: Joshua Ballanco <jballanc@...>
Date: 2009-05-14T14:20:01+09:00
Subject: Re: [bikeshed] Syntactic sugar idea

On May 14, 2009, at 12:27 AM, Joel VanderWerf wrote:

> 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...

Isn't this essentially the "with" syntax from Javascript? I think that  
could fit into a future version of Ruby...


- Josh