From: nobu.nokada@...
Date: 2004-11-12T17:17:37+09:00
Subject: Re: Receiving blocks in Proc?

Hi,

At Fri, 12 Nov 2004 12:38:37 +0900,
Yukihiro Matsumoto wrote in [ruby-talk:120009]:
> |> > I have no plan to allow this.  I have alternative idea, which allows
> |> > parentheses instead of brackets.  But it still is a vague idea, no
> |> > promise.
> 
> |I tried it but it breaks many code.
> 
> Yours was too thorough, I guess.  What I was thinking was to allow
> calling parentheses only after
> 
>   * predefined local variables
>   * explicit method calls (with parentheses)
> 
> which should break less code.

Well, it did just those things, IIRC.  Yes, "many" was not
correct word, but, even in bundled libraries, tests and
samples, some codes were using the variable of the same name as
a method.

-- 
Nobu Nakada