From: John Joyce <dangerwillrobinsondanger@...>
Date: 2007-04-10T00:00:29+09:00
Subject: Re: code blocks and methods

Ruby blocks are generally far simpler than they seem at first.
On Apr 9, 2007, at 10:57 PM, Rick DeNatale wrote:

> On 4/9/07, DDENNISON@up.com <DDENNISON@up.com> wrote:
>> I like to think of code blocks as a visitor pattern or a callback  
>> function.
>> You are essentially passing in a chunk of code to a method to be  
>> executed
>> for each logical element of data.
>
> That's more a description of how they are used in iterator methods
> rather than a general description of code blocks and the variety of
> ways they can be used.
>
> -- 
> Rick DeNatale
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