From: Bulat Ziganshin <bulatz@...>
Date: 2002-10-08T21:43:21+09:00
Subject: Re: equalizing $_ and self

Hello ts,

Tuesday, October 08, 2002, 4:33:03 PM, you wrote:

>>>>>> "B" == Bulat Ziganshin <bulatz@integ.ru> writes:

B>> well, i must use more scientific language:

t>  it's a joke ?

no, it is just the same proposition

B>> proposition of having several nested execution contents at the same
B>> time :)  like the non-perlish "with" operator. now better? :)

t>  read the archive : http://www.ruby-talk.org/

in current ruby there is just one execution context and instance_eval
just switches this context. may be we need a syntax for "fast context
switching" (ATTENTION! this is not current ruby and pigeon cannot eat
THIS):

strlist.map{{downcase}}

equal to

strlist.map{|a| a.instance_eval{downcase}}



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 Bulat                            mailto:bulatz@integ.ru