From: "Florian Groß" <florgro@...>
Date: 2005-08-07T06:48:38+09:00
Subject: Re: new block notation

Daniel Brockman wrote:

> Just a random thought.  If we can't do fun(...) { ...}
> because we can't add a new keyword, what about this?
> 
>    make_counter = do(start=0) { do { start += 1 } }
>    counter = make_counter[5]
>    5.times { puts counter.call }
> 
> I haven't considered backwards-compatibility, or much
> anything else for that matter.  It just occured to me.

Thought about it shortly as well while browsing through the keyword 
file, but I think that this just looks off:

make_counter = do(start=0) do
   do do
     start += 1
   end
end

OTOH I'm not sure I see the problem with changing lambda or fun.