From: "Hal E. Fulton" <hal9000@...>
Date: 2003-07-16T23:56:56+09:00
Subject: Re: Keyword "with"

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Martin DeMello" <martindemello@yahoo.com>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ruby
To: "ruby-talk ML" <ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org>
Sent: Wednesday, July 16, 2003 9:48 AM
Subject: Re: Keyword "with"


> Mark J. Reed <markjreed@mail.com> wrote:
> > 
> > Okay, well, VB programmers don't count. ;-)
> 
> Actually, VB complements the 'with' block with a unary . operator, which
> is IMO the cleanest way to scope both local and object variables and
> methods. At least, when I thought of the instance_eval/with trick, I
> gave up on it because I couldn't think of a way to simulate unary .s

Now there's a thought. The unary . is not so
bad in my opinion. We already have the unary ::
in Ruby (::X means Object::X).

Sounds like a huge parser change to me, though.
Perhaps far too much in exchange for a small
benefit. Wonder what Matz would think of it?

Hal

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