From: Robert Klemme <bob.news@...>
Date: 2006-02-07T17:58:22+09:00
Subject: Re: Method Definitions: &block vs. yield()

Marcin Miel��y��ski wrote:
> 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

More generally all situations where you do not want to invoke the block
from this method but pass it on to another.

Kind regards

    robert