From: Gavin Kistner <gavin@...>
Date: 2005-08-05T22:13:17+09:00
Subject: Re: new block notation (was: Re: ruby-dev summary 26468-26661)

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On Aug 4, 2005, at 11:01 PM, Mike Austin wrote:
>> f = def(x, y, z = x | y) { ... } # also need to allow def x() { ... }
>> f = fun(x, y, z = x | y) { ... } # a new keyword
>>
>
> I find this the most unified looking, similar to JavaScript's  
> function() {}.

Ah, but that's the problem, IMO. Javascript's "function(){ ... }" is  
so verbose that I would never *think* of using an anonymous function  
the way we use blocks in Ruby:

var out = "";
myArray.each( function(el){
   out += el;
} );

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