From: dblack@...
Date: 2006-08-02T10:06:26+09:00
Subject: Re: I thought this was the one that worked?

Hi --

On Wed, 2 Aug 2006, dblack@wobblini.net wrote:

> Hi --
>
> On Wed, 2 Aug 2006, Just Another Victim of the Ambient Morality wrote:
>
>> # this is the sample code you provided...
>> 
>> a = 10
>> # the block is defined here but "sent" to the "each" method...
>> [1, 2, 3].each {|x| puts x * a }
>
> I would say: control passes to the block.  The block itself is not
> represented by an object (which I think is the only quasi-objective
> [ha ha] definition of "sent") in any scope other than the one in which
> it was created.

(Nor, I should add, in the one in which it was created.)


David

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