From: Christian Neukirchen <chneukirchen@...>
Date: 2006-02-09T03:47:33+09:00
Subject: Re: block_given? vs defined? yield

Joel VanderWerf <vjoel@path.berkeley.edu> writes:

> Yukihiro Matsumoto wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> In message "Re: block_given? vs defined? yield"
>>     on Thu, 9 Feb 2006 01:42:30 +0900, Daniel Berger <Daniel.Berger@qwest.com> writes:
>> 
>> |Is there any difference between "block_given?" vs "defined? yield" ?
>> 
>> They are almost same.  The only difference is the former is a method,
>> and the latter is a syntax (no call), and consequently the latter
>> might be a little bit faster, but practically you can consider them
>> same.
>> 
>> 							matz.
> I didn't know block_given? was a method. So there's another possible
> difference besides speed:

And I didn't know "defined? yield" even existed. ;-) It looks pretty
magic to me, I'd personally avoid it.

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