From: "Ara.T.Howard" <Ara.T.Howard@...>
Date: 2005-10-13T06:44:54+09:00
Subject: Re: Default argument values for blocks

On Thu, 13 Oct 2005, Sean O'Halpin wrote:

> On 10/12/05, Eric Mahurin <eric_mahurin@yahoo.com> wrote:
>> Or maybe if "eval" became a keyword like you mentioned above
>> and it could also take a block, you could do this instead:
>>
>> b=1
>> eval {|;b|
>>  b=5
>>  p b # => 5
>> }
>> p b # => 1
>
> +1
>
> Any chance of eval taking a block ~and~ a specific binding, e.g.
>
>  eval &block, binding
>
> (though this breaks current argument parsing rules).
>
> Sean

eval(binding, &block) works.  the eval(string) method just needs to check it's
arg type.

-a
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