From: martindemello@... (Martin DeMello)
Date: 2003-06-23T21:56:35+09:00
Subject: Re: String#decorate

Thomas Hurst <tom.hurst@clara.net> wrote in message 
> 
> I'm still not seeing much point :)

Just that I prefer the look of 

  foo.bar.baz.perform {|a| f(a)} # perform is a nice generalisation to
objects

to either

  a = foo.bar.baz
  a = f(a)

or (specifically for strings)

  "gunk #{foo.bar.baz} moregunk"

because I frequently think of the decoration as the last step in a
series of transformations, not as a sort of Cish main() that calls the
other transformations.

The reason I limited it to strings is that I seldom do {a = f(a)} type
transformations for anything other than strings and numbers, and
number manipulations I think of in a more functional than OO syntax
anyway.

martin