[#43120] [ruby-trunk - Bug #6124][Open] What is the purpose of "fake" gems in Ruby — Vit Ondruch <v.ondruch@...>

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[#43142] Questions about thread performance (with benchmark included) — Rodrigo Rosenfeld Rosas <rr.rosas@...>

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[#43148] [ruby-trunk - Feature #6126][Open] Introduce yes/no constants aliases for true/false — Egor Homakov <homakov@...>

16 messages 2012/03/09

[#43238] [ruby-trunk - Feature #6130][Open] inspect using to_s is pain — Thomas Sawyer <transfire@...>

21 messages 2012/03/11

[#43313] [ruby-trunk - Feature #6150][Open] add Enumerable#grep_v — Suraj Kurapati <sunaku@...>

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[#43325] [ruby-trunk - Bug #6154][Open] Eliminate extending WaitReadable/Writable at runtime — Charles Nutter <headius@...>

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[#43334] [ruby-trunk - Bug #6155][Open] Enumerable::Lazy#flat_map raises an exception when an element does not respond to #each — Dan Kubb <dan.kubb@...>

9 messages 2012/03/16

[#43370] [ruby-trunk - Feature #6166][Open] Enumerator::Lazy#pinch — Thomas Sawyer <transfire@...>

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[#43373] [ruby-trunk - Bug #6168][Open] Segfault in OpenSSL bindings — Nguma Abojo <git.email.address@...>

14 messages 2012/03/17

[#43454] [ruby-trunk - Bug #6174][Open] Fix collision of ConditionVariable#wait timeout and #signal (+ other cosmetic changes) — "funny_falcon (Yura Sokolov)" <funny.falcon@...>

10 messages 2012/03/18

[#43497] [ruby-trunk - Bug #6179][Open] File::pos broken in Windows 1.9.3p125 — "jmthomas (Jason Thomas)" <jmthomas@...>

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[#43502] [ruby-trunk - Feature #6180][Open] to_b for converting objects to a boolean value — "AaronLasseigne (Aaron Lasseigne)" <aaron.lasseigne@...>

17 messages 2012/03/20

[#43529] [ruby-trunk - Bug #6183][Open] Enumerator::Lazy performance issue — "gregolsen (Innokenty Mikhailov)" <anotheroneman@...>

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[#43543] [ruby-trunk - Bug #6184][Open] [BUG] Segmentation fault ruby 1.9.3p165 (2012-03-18 revision 35078) [x86_64-darwin11.3.0] — "Gebor (Pierre-Henry Frohring)" <frohring.pierrehenry@...>

8 messages 2012/03/21

[#43672] [ruby-trunk - Feature #6201][Open] do_something then return :special_case (include "then" operator) — "rosenfeld (Rodrigo Rosenfeld Rosas)" <rr.rosas@...>

12 messages 2012/03/26

[#43678] [ruby-trunk - Bug #6203][Open] Array#values_at does not handle ranges with end index past the end of the array — "ferrous26 (Mark Rada)" <markrada26@...>

15 messages 2012/03/26

[#43794] [ruby-trunk - Feature #6216][Open] SystemStackError backtraces should not be reduced to one line — "postmodern (Hal Brodigan)" <postmodern.mod3@...>

15 messages 2012/03/28

[#43814] [ruby-trunk - Feature #6219][Open] Return value of Hash#store — "MartinBosslet (Martin Bosslet)" <Martin.Bosslet@...>

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[#43858] [ruby-trunk - Feature #6222][Open] Use ++ to connect statements — "gcao (Guoliang Cao)" <gcao99@...>

12 messages 2012/03/29

[#43904] [ruby-trunk - Feature #6225][Open] Hash#+ — "trans (Thomas Sawyer)" <transfire@...>

36 messages 2012/03/29

[#43951] [ruby-trunk - Bug #6228][Open] [mingw] Errno::EBADF in ruby/test_io.rb on ruby_1_9_3 — "jonforums (Jon Forums)" <redmine@...>

28 messages 2012/03/30

[#43996] [ruby-trunk - Bug #6236][Open] WEBrick::HTTPServer swallows Exception — "regularfry (Alex Young)" <alex@...>

13 messages 2012/03/31

[ruby-core:43431] [ruby-trunk - Feature #4102] Proposal for 'let'. A new approach using block-defaults in 1.9

From: nahi <nakahiro@...>
Date: 2012-03-18 09:44:28 UTC
List: ruby-core #43431
Issue #4102 has been updated by nahi.

Description updated
Category set to core
Assignee set to matz


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Feature #4102: Proposal for 'let'. A new approach using block-defaults in 1.9
https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/4102#change-24750

Author: banister
Status: Open
Priority: Normal
Assignee: matz
Category: core
Target version: 


=begin
 This is a very simple function, it would be implemented as follows:
 
     module Kernel
       private
       def let() yield end
     end
 
 First of all, do not dismiss this functionality out of hand because of 
 its simplicity.
 
 Even though it is just a 'yield', when it is combined with Ruby 1.9's 
 block defaults and new block-variable scoping rules it is actually quite 
 powerful and it behaves exactly like a let* in lisp.
 
 Some advantages of this functionality are:
 (1) Gives you precise control over the scope of your variables.
 
 I note that after the publication of "Metaprogramming in Ruby" by Paolo 
 Perrotta the following idiom has started to appear:
 
     proc do
       ..my code..
     end.call
 
 It is used exactly as the proposed 'let' would be used, but is 
 syntactically much uglier.
 
 Yes, i know an alternative is to just make shorter and smaller methods. 
 But is the ability to control and restrict scope ever a bad thing?
 
 (2) Testing and teaching about blocks.
 
 As the proposed 'let' simply yields to a block it can be used to 
 illustrate block behaviour and block concepts to a new Ruby programmer. 
 It also may be useful to an experienced programmer when trying out new 
 ideas.
 
 Here are some example uses of the proposed 'let':
 
 Example 1: Carve out a temporary scope, make 'x' local to that scope
 
     x = :outer
     let { |x| x = :inner } #=> :inner
     x #=> :outer
 
 Example 2: Here we use Ruby 1.9's block-defaults to make 'y' block-local 
 and give it a value:
 
     let { |y=10| y } #=> 10
 
 Example 3: Make 'x' and 'y' block-local and have 'y' value depend on 'x' 
 (equivalent to let* in lisp)
 
     let { |x=10, y=(2*x)| [x, y] } #=> [10, 20]
 
 In summary, I think this proposal should succeed for the following 
 reasons:
 (1) It is an exceptionally simple implementation.
 (2) More control over scope is never a bad thing.
 (3) I have seen people re-implementing this functionality themselves 
 using: proc { ..code.. }.call
 (4) It is very useful for teaching and testing block behaviour.
 
 Thanks,
 
 John
=end



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