From: "Marcin Mielżyński" Date: 2006-02-07T08:13:21+09:00 Subject: Re: Method Definitions: &block vs. yield() James H. wrote: Generally yield is much faster than converting block to a Proc. But there are situations when you have to explicitly pass the block and convert it, these two are the most obvious that come to my mind: saving a Proc object for delayed execution implementing recursive iterators lopex