From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2000-02-16T12:33:02+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:01419] Re: Yield

Hi,

In message "[ruby-talk:01415] Re: Yield"
    on 00/02/15, "Conrad Schneiker" <schneiker@jump.net> writes:

|Could we (the readers of this newsgroup)--in the interest of learn-ability,
|teach-ability, comprehensibility, public friendliness, principle of least
|surprise, not using Perl-like obscurities (e.g. bless), and everything else
|that otherwise makes Ruby great--could we all agree on a better name for the
|yield statement that would also be acceptable to Matz, and which could
|co-exist for a year or so with a depreciated yield?

I always welcome the discussion about better names for `yield' and
`iterator?'  `yield' is the historical name inherited from CLU, which
is the foundation of the concept of iterator.

							matz.