From: zuzu <sean.zuzu@...>
Date: 2004-07-09T21:30:24+09:00
Subject: Re: I love Ruby

On Fri, 9 Jul 2004 21:15:52 +0900, Kaspar Schiess <eule@space.ch> wrote:
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> zuzu wrote:
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> |> why the difference in scope?
> |> why does 'do...end' pass into foo instead of bar?
> 
> Actually the difference is one of 'operator precedence' and not one of
> scope, as far as {} can be called an operator. {} just binds very thight
> to the call to bar, whereas do end binds loosely to the call of foo.
> This means that
> 
> ~  puts str.gsub { ... }
> 
> will do what you expected but
> 
> ~  puts str.gsub do ... end
> 
> will call puts with a block. Hence the single line/multiline difference.

*lightbulb*  word.

..."that's not intuitive!" ;-)

i would think that if you want to pass 'puts' a block, you should have
to more strongly define:
puts(str.gsub) do ... end

lots of words with spaces weirds me out, like applescript.

> Thank you for your OT (not to me) pointers, I will put them on the list
> of things to
> read ! Perhaps you will be interested in my opinion afterwards ;) ?

certainly.  especially if you can finish 'science & sanity' by korzybski.
dretske i'm so-so on, but supposidly 'flow of information' is the
leading treatise on applying information theory to language...  i
think his research is solid, but so far disagree with his conclusion
that knowledge is "all or nothing"; obviously he hasn't learned null-A
from korzybski.

> yours,
> kaspar
> 
> semantics & semiotics
> code manufacture
> 
> www.tua.ch/ruby
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