From: Nikolai Weibull <mailing-lists.ruby-talk@...>
Date: 2005-08-08T05:49:55+09:00
Subject: Re: Adding yet another Array.new form

Kirk Haines wrote:

> module Kernel
>         def returning(*vals)
>                 yield *vals
>         end
> end

That'd return the last value of the block, not the value passed to
returning.

Also, the returning "function" is apparently also known as the K
combinator (there are many other interesting combinators in lambda
calculus, such as the Y combinator; see, for example,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Y_combinator) and can
be found in
vendor/rails/activesupport/lib/active_support/core_ext/kernel.rb in the
Rails distribution,
        nikolai

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