From: Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@...>
Date: 2005-06-29T00:32:20+09:00
Subject: Re: yield does not take a block

Hi,

In message "Re: yield does not take a block"
    on Tue, 28 Jun 2005 17:37:06 +0900, Daniel Brockman <daniel@brockman.se> writes:

|Under ruby 1.9.0 (2005-06-23) [i386-linux], irb 0.9.5(05/04/13),
|these forms are not permitted:
|
|    yield { .. }
|    yield &..
|
|But these are okay:
|
|    Proc.new.call { .. }
|    Proc.new.call &..
|
|This is an oversight, right?

yield is a keyword to pass a value (and control) to the block attached
to the method.  I feel strange when I see yield passes a block to an
outer block.

							matz.