From: Bharat Ruparel <bruparel@...>
Date: 2007-07-09T09:10:23+09:00
Subject: Yield should be renamed call_block

One of the virtues of the Ruby language that is touted by just about
everyone including the language designer Matz is that it is supposedly
very intuitive, follows principle of least surprise, duck typing and on
and on.
I find it fascinating and quite a bit true.  However, I have to always
mentally translate the keyword "yeild" to mean "call_block".  I find
that it is the biggest distraction that I have when I am trying to
figure out what and how a a method with a block and calling code
interact.  I can understand all that baggage such as "lambda" function
name from Lisp and the wonderful "$" variables that came from Perl, but
where did the keyword yeild come from?  And why has not anyone aske Matz
to consider changing it to infinitely more obvious "call_block"?  It it
that big a deal?  In an open source language?

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