From: Patrick Hurley <phurley@...>
Date: 2006-02-22T01:50:52+09:00
Subject: Re: Blocks / Closures

On 2/21/06, Picklegnome <picklegnome@nerdshack.com> wrote:
> Can blocks be used for non-iterative
> functions?

In addition to what has already been mentioned, blocks are useful
whenever you want to abstract an action out of a routine or delay
evaluation. For example, they can be handy for call backs (in GUI
programming), developing threaded code, state machine call backs, etc.

pth