From: botp <botpena@...>
Date: 2007-04-10T02:00:20+09:00
Subject: Re: code blocks and methods

On 4/9/07, Rick DeNatale <rick.denatale@gmail.com> wrote:
> Not really, blocks are instances of Proc, they are not methods:
> irb(main):001:0> def block_class(&b)

i hope we don't generalize that much. Here eg, we are explicitly
converting a block to a proc.

> But the pedagogical explanation that a block is an unnamed method is
> useful to beginners.

i prefer to refer to blocks as just mere codes that cannot stand on
their own yet. They have to be proc-ified or lamba-fied or yielded as
code blocks in methods.

but I really hoped that methods, procs, and lambdas be unified.  Their
functions look very similar.

kind regards -botp