From: Navindra Umanee <navindra@...>
Date: 2005-08-07T06:46:04+09:00
Subject: Re: new block notation (was: Re: ruby-dev summary 26468-26661)

Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@ruby-lang.org> wrote:
> In message "Re: new block notation (was: Re: ruby-dev summary 26468-26661)"
>     on Sat, 6 Aug 2005 00:26:17 +0900, Florian Gro� <florgro@gmail.com> writes:
> 
> |Why not go with  lambda(arg-list) { body }  or  fun(arg-list) { body } 
> |or  def(arg-list) { body }  then? I think that the syntax would point 
> |out that this is more than a method that turns a block into an object 
> |and I think that it would be a simple solution.
> 
> Introducing a new reserved word possibly break existing code.  Besides
> that, there's no good candidate for a new keyword: lambda is too
> awkward, def is not sufficient since we don't define anything here,
> and I expect the name fun is used everywhere as local variable names.
> 
> "->" might appear weird at first.  But it doesn't break any code.

Just my +1 cents for Florian here.  def or even lambda both sound
great to me and feel natural to current Ruby -- the arrow thing is
just plain weird and alien to the language or concepts IMHO.

Cheers,
Navin.