From: Its Me <itsme213@...>
Date: 2004-05-12T23:08:54+09:00
Subject: Re: Proposal: Object#send(nil) -> self


"Gavin Sinclair" <gsinclair@soyabean.com.au> wrote in message
> Instead of sending (nil) to get the object, what about sending :self or
> :identity (if :self is a problematic choice of name).  As in (I'll go with
> :identity for now):
> Forget the triviality of the example.  Is that a good paradigm?

It's a great paradigm, in the sense that the "identity" function is quite a
basic fundamental case in the set of all transformation functions.

I have seen arguments that it does not belong in Ruby core, but I would be
quite happy if it were.