From: Rick DeNatale <rick.denatale@...>
Date: 2007-04-08T04:11:52+09:00
Subject: Re: about functional programming

On 4/7/07, Joel VanderWerf <vjoel@path.berkeley.edu> wrote:

>
> Do you mean Proc.new? IIRC Kernel#proc and Kernel#lambda are aliases.
> Proc.new is the one with non-local returns, at least as of 1.8.6.[1]

Yep you're right.  I got the difference between a raw proc and a
lambda and the two methods.

> There is another reason to not use #proc, which I have yet to resign
> myself to: it is going away in some future ruby, and we will have to
> type two more characters each time we want to use it.

Personally, I prefer lambda to proc, particularly since we are talking
about functional programming.

Makes me think of Alonzo Church every time I type it.

And Ruby saves me so many characters in so many other contexts
compared to most languages that it seems like a small thing anyway.
<G>


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