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MyASPN >> Mail Archive >> ruby-talk
ruby-talk
Re: "with" statement
by Robert Klemme other posts by this author
Oct 23 2007 2:29AM messages near this date
Re: "with" statement | Re: "with" statement
2007/10/22, Giles Bowkett <gilesb@[...].com> :
>  > module Kernel
>  >   def with(object,&block)
>  >     object.instance_eval &block
>  >   end
>  > end
>  >
>  > with([1,2,3]) { length } # => 3
> 
>  This is really neat and compact.

How is this more compact than

[1,2,3].length

?

Cheers

robert
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