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From: Yukihiro Matsumoto <m...@ruby-lang.org>
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Subject: Re: how to do instance_eval with arguments
Date: Thu, 9 Feb 2006 08:00:51 +0900
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Hi,

In message "Re: how to do instance_eval with arguments"
    on Thu, 9 Feb 2006 07:33:53 +0900, Jim Weirich <j...@weirichhouse.org> writes:
|
|I'm prototyping a DSL and came across a situtation where I have a lambda 
|that I would like to give to instance_eval, but the lambda takes 
|arguments.  Instance_eval will not supply any arguments when evaluating 
|the lambda and I don't see a straightforward way around this.
|
|Any suggestions?

CVS HEAD (1.9) has instance_exec method that works exactly what you
want. 

							matz.