From: Gavin Kistner <gavin@...>
Date: 2005-08-03T22:27:37+09:00
Subject: Re: Closures [was Re: Populate <select> in .rhtml]

On Aug 3, 2005, at 7:23 AM, Gavin Kistner wrote:
> Ruby's blocks have three great things going for them:
> 1) They have a very, very simple syntax (and are anonymous)
> 2) They are first-class functions (can be treated and passed as  
> variables)
> 3) Ruby's syntax allows blocks to be passed to a method very easily
> 4) They are closures

And I have four not-so-great things going for me:
1) I can't count.