From: Tanaka Akira <akr@...>
Date: 2009-08-25T16:37:24+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:25117] Re: Proposal: Simpler block format

In article <245fb4700908231725i3fa65567xe82bcb5ca1b8dc90@mail.gmail.com>,
  Yehuda Katz <wycats@gmail.com> writes:

> There's no conceptual reason for programmers to differentiate between Proc
> objects and the block passed to methods, except that the latter provides
> some extra syntax to make the common use-case pretty. Trying to explain the
> difference to new Rubyists strikes me as something we'd be better off never
> having to do.

Proc objects and blocks are different with "break".

def m1
  yield
  p :m1
end
m1 { break } # break terminates m1

def m2(pr)
  pr.call
  p :m2
end
m2(proc { break }) # break terminates proc in 1.8.  LocalJumpError in 1.9

"break" needs to know the method call to terminate.
Blocks knows but Proc objects doesn't.
-- 
Tanaka Akira