From: Ken Bloom <kbloom@...>
Date: 2006-09-11T07:15:24+09:00
Subject: Re: Struggling with Blocks

On Sun, 10 Sep 2006 15:05:10 -0700, Paul Lutus wrote:

> Newbie wrote:
> 
>> So, from a language design perspective, what would be wrong with this?
>> 
>> do
>>    stuff
>>    do
>>      risky stuff
>>    rescue
>>      SOS
>>    end
>>    more stuff
>> end while bored
> 
> "do" doesn't work this way -- it's an iterator (loosely speaking). "begin"
> is not an iterator. They are different. There are good reasons to make this
> distinction.
>

What *are* those reasons? That's the whole point of his question.

-- 
Ken Bloom. PhD candidate. Linguistic Cognition Laboratory.
Department of Computer Science. Illinois Institute of Technology.
http://www.iit.edu/~kbloom1/