From: nobu.nokada@...
Date: 2002-06-06T19:41:36+09:00
Subject: Re: Pascal-like 'with' statement?

Hi,

At Thu, 6 Jun 2002 17:42:27 +0900,
Avi Bryant wrote:
> Or, in more Smalltalky style,
> 
> Cfg = OpenStruct.new.host('localhost');
>                     .user('shoujoai');
>                     .database('shoujoai');
>                     .yourself
> 
> One nice property of this last style is that the whole thing becomes a
> single expression, suitable for, say, putting in a return statement
> without even using a local variable.

It allows only each one methods, i.e., denies method chains in
cascades?  If not, it needs to explicit the `start point' of
the cascade.  Once I'd thought out like this:

  Cfg = OpenStruct.new.{host('localhost')
                        user('shoujoai')
                        database('shoujoai')
                        method.chain
                        yourself}

But I concluded cascades must result only confusion if nested.

-- 
Nobu Nakada