From: William James <w_a_x_man@...>
Date: 2006-07-09T11:30:06+09:00
Subject: Re: Sweet Lord!


Marcin Mielzynski wrote:
> Daniel Schierbeck wrote:
> > William James wrote:
> >> I didn't know that it would be faster; I only knew that using &block
> >> is SO MUCH UGLIER!
> >
> > That, my friend, is a matter of taste.
> >
>
> There is nothing without a purpose. Consider an object method that takes
> a block and it doesn't want to execute it immediately. What would you do
> without a &block ?

Utterly illogical.  That is like saying that sometimes we must amputate
a
man's foot in order to save his life, and that therefore we must always
amputate a man's foot.