From: Christian Rishoej <chrris@...>
Date: 2002-06-06T09:43:28+09:00
Subject: Re: Pascal-like 'with' statement?

> Is there something like Pascal's with statement? I'd like to turn this
> code:
> 
> Cfg = OpenStruct.new
> Cfg.host = 'localhost'
> Cfg.user = 'shoujoai'
> Cfg.database = 'shoujoai'
> 
> into something like this:
> 
> Cfg = OpenStruct.new
> with Cfg do
> host = 'localhost'
> user = 'shoujoai'
> database = 'shoujoai'
> end

If you have

class Cfg
...
end

...you could do:

c = Cfg.new
c.instance_eval {
    @host = 'localhost'
    @user = 'shoujoai'
}

Christian