From: Christian Neukirchen <chneukirchen@...>
Date: 2005-10-14T21:57:25+09:00
Subject: Re: Default argument values for blocks

"David A. Black" <dblack@wobblini.net> writes:

> Hi --
>
> On Fri, 14 Oct 2005, Gyoung-Yoon Noh wrote:
>
>> +1
>>
>> collection.each : (foo="bar") { puts foo }
>>
>> It looks like 'when condition : expression' branch in
>> 'case' statement.
>
> But why would you want a method call and argument list and block to
> look like when condition : expression ?  There's no "then" meaning to
> it.

Read the : as "do".  When x is one, do... For every item of the
collection, do...

I think the :(){} stuff is the nicest looking approach as of now, but
I wouldn't use it when ordinary {||} is enough.

> David
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