From: dblack@...
Date: 2007-07-11T09:28:14+09:00
Subject: Re: Yield should be renamed call_block

Hi --

On Wed, 11 Jul 2007, Chad Perrin wrote:

> On Wed, Jul 11, 2007 at 07:36:34AM +0900, ara.t.howard wrote:
>>
>> i'm with matz on this one
>>
>>   block.yield
>>
>> reads, to me, simple as
>>
>>   'doing my own thing...'
>>
>>   block.yield 'control to you'
>
> Speaking more generally . . .
>
> The way I've always read the object.message syntax is that you're saying
> something like "Hey, Object!  I want you to [yield]."  Substitute the
> particular message you're sending for [yield] as necessary.

Exactly -- blocks don't yield, so let's not ask them to :-)


David

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