From: Chad Perrin <perrin@...>
Date: 2007-07-09T14:39:15+09:00
Subject: Re: Yield should be renamed call_block

On Mon, Jul 09, 2007 at 09:58:23AM +0900, Yukihiro Matsumoto wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> In message "Re: Yield should be renamed call_block"
>     on Mon, 9 Jul 2007 09:10:23 +0900, Bharat Ruparel <bruparel@mercury.com> writes:
> 
> |I find it fascinating and quite a bit true.  However, I have to always
> |mentally translate the keyword "yeild" to mean "call_block".
> 
> The "yield" keyword is used for this purpose from the ages of
> languages for example in CLU.  So if you learn the history and the
> culture, you will find less problem.
> 
> I am not going to rename it.  But in far future (3.0? maybe), the
> keyword will be removed from the language, and you will access blocks
> via block arguments of methods.

That sounds pretty good -- and more consistent across the language, too.

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