From: Daniel Schierbeck <daniel.schierbeck@...>
Date: 2006-07-09T18:10:12+09:00
Subject: Re: Sweet Lord!

William James wrote:
> 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.

I think he was trying to say that there are times when `yield' is the 
best choice, and there are times when `&block' is. It all depends on the 
situation.


Cheers,
Daniel