From: "Ara.T.Howard" <Ara.T.Howard@...>
Date: 2005-08-05T23:15:29+09:00
Subject: Re: new block notation (was: Re: ruby-dev summary 26468-26661)

On Fri, 5 Aug 2005, Jason Foreman wrote:

> I hadn't seen this particular variant posted in this thread yet.
> Apologies if it was and I missed it.  I make no claims as to its ease
> of parsing or whatever, but it looks better than many of the other
> options to me.
>
>
> bar = { x, y=3, z=b|5 ->
>  x + y * z
> }
>
>
> I believe this is similar to the approach that Groovy [1] uses for its blocks.
>
>
> Jason
>
> [1] http://groovy.codehaus.org

nice.  i like it!

-a
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