From: Ross Bamford <rosco@...>
Date: 2006-01-03T18:42:57+09:00
Subject: Re: Implicit block parameter?

On Mon, 02 Jan 2006 22:54:43 -0000, Dominik Bathon <dbatml@gmx.de> wrote:

> On Mon, 02 Jan 2006 21:32:57 +0100, Ross Bamford  
> <rosco@roscopeco.remove.co.uk> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Probably this has been considered before, but I'll ask anyway.
>
> I have also proposed this in October:
>
> http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-talk/162588
>
> And it seems to have been proposed before.
>
> I have actually implemented it for ruby 1.9 lately (it should work  
> similar for 1.8). It's just a small patch for eval.c:
>
> ... [snipped patch] ...

Wicked :) I can confirm that seems to work in 1.8 (though I had to make  
one change manually because the source is slightly different of course). I  
guessed it'd be something that would be reasonably easy (when you know how  
;)) from the C side.

FWIW +1 for inclusion in a future Ruby.

Cheers,

-- 
Ross Bamford - rosco@roscopeco.remove.co.uk