From: Jamis Buck <jamis_buck@...>
Date: 2005-01-06T08:35:14+09:00
Subject: Re: Return from a block?

On 08:17 Thu 06 Jan     , Carlos wrote:
> [Howard Lewis Ship <hlship@gmail.com>, 2005-01-06 00.11 CET]
> > Is there a way to return control from the block to the method?
> 
> next
> 
> Good luck.

To elaborate a little more:

  a = proc { |i| next i+1 }
  p a.call(5)

Hope that helps. I can understand why 'return' behaves like it does,
but there are times I wish there was a more intuitive keyword for
returning a value from a block. 'next' just feels wrong to me. :(

- Jamis

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