From: timsuth@... (Tim Sutherland)
Date: 2001-12-28T09:34:26+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:29496] Re: Can't yield from Proc

In article <rfcvgeuxf17.fsf@moulon.inra.fr>, ts wrote:
>>>>>> "T" == Tim Sutherland <timsuth@ihug.co.nz> writes:
[...]
>T> The alternative doesn't even make it past the parser:
>T> 	double = Proc.new { |x, &block| block.call(x*2) }
>-> SyntaxError: compile error
>
> Well, here you make a confusion between the definition of a method
> (i.e. def tt(a, &block) ... end) and the parameters given to the block. 
>
> |a, b| must be seen as a multi-assignement

Thanks, that rationalises the behaviour nicely. I suppose in a language
which provides its own OO support, there is less need for functions which
return functions.

>T> differences. (Given Matz is Japanese I shall not complain too loudly about
>T> having to type "initialize" instead of "initialise" ;)
>
> see [ruby-talk:01566]
>
> http://www.ruby-talk.com/1566

For me, it's not because I think one form or the other is more "correct". I
just don't like the letter 'z'.

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