From: Simen Edvardsen <toalett@...>
Date: 2007-07-10T00:43:50+09:00
Subject: Re: Yield should be renamed call_block

On 7/9/07, Bharat Ruparel <bruparel@mercury.com> wrote:
> 2.  I think that moving "yeild" to a method call is a great idea.  That
> way it can be freely aliased as and when needed.  Why are you saying
> that it will be done that far out (3.0?).  Are you concerned about
> "breaking" existing code?  Educate me.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Bharat
>
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>
>

I think that in general, stuff that relies on implementation details
such as yield (you must lookup the block in the current scope) is a
language feature, and should be treated as such. The alternative would
be if Ruby provided a cross-platform interface to the interpreter, but
I don't see that happening anytime soon.

Also, aliasing "yield" would lead to confusion. I think it's good to
enforce consistency in this case.

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- Simen