On 22 Jul 2013, at 10:26, Graham Ashton <[email protected]> wrote:

>> with bus do
>>  tell :turn_on
>>  tell :add_leaves
>> end
>> 
>> With the kettle/teapot listeners doing some pattern matching ... or you 
>> could just use Erlang ;-)
> 
> What are people's thoughts on the fact that inside that block, self has been 
> changed?
> 
> When first seeing code like this I thought "hey, that's really clean - nice".
> 
> Then I ran into all sorts of trouble with in a couple of projects that I'd 
> used that invoked the pattern, and went off it rather quickly.

I don't do this either any more, it's never turned out to be worth the slight 
extra terseness. I'm not against it in principle, I just haven't found it 
helpful in practice.

Ash

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