From: "Guy N. Hurst" <gnhurst@...>
Date: 2001-06-16T09:04:09+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:16514] Re: Playing with Ruby Syntax (was: Initial  thoughts about Ruby From a Smalltalk Programmer)


Dave Thomas wrote:
> ...
> However, adding keyword arguments to the call will allow the
> parser to be cleverer. Say the syntax is
> 
>    method arg1: <value>  arg2: <value>
> 
> then we could have automatic conversion of blocks to procs when they
> appear after an argument name. This would let us write Smalltalk-ish
> things such as
> 
>    my_if  a = b  then: { puts "one"} else: { puts "two" }
> 

My thoughts:
1) why not also have block->proc conversion without keywords args?
2) wait, how does ruby know that the block after "then:" isn't a hash?


Guy N. Hurst

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