From: Newbie <none@...>
Date: 2006-09-13T16:50:47+09:00
Subject: Re: Struggling with Blocks

The OP is confused as to why the different semantics exist at all. It appears (to a newbie) to be 
very arbitrary. One pair of delimiters for a block being passed to a yield method or turned into a 
proc, another for a block with error trapping.

gwtmp01@mac.com wrote:
> There is certainly a syntactic similarity to begin/end and do/end but 
> why are the semantics of those particular pairs confusing?
> Why stop there?  You also have to deal with:  module/end, class/end, 
> def/end, if/end, case/end.
> 
> At some point you just have to realize that different syntactic blocks 
> have different semantics and then learn the semantics.

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