From: Michael Lucas-Smith <s3225202@...>
Date: 2002-01-01T06:43:24+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:29897] Re: Proc.class vs yield

Joel VanderWerf wrote:

> David Alan Black wrote:
> 
> 
>>Hmmm... I wonder whether part of what you're not liking is the fact
>>that the {} operator is overloaded: it's a block constructor and also
>>a hash constructor.  So there needs to be a way to deal with things
>>like:
>>
>>  some_method( { "hi" }, { "one" => 1 }, { |x| puts x })
>>
> 
> There is still some room to overload {} a bit more. The syntax
> 
>   some_method {|x| x+1} {|y| y-1}
> 
> has no meaning currently--it's a parse error. Could this syntax be given
> a meaning so that
> 
>   def some_method(&b1, &b2)
>   end
> 
> allowed the method to use both blocks?
> 


Surely you'd need "some_method {|x| x+1}, {|y| y-1}" a comma in there?

Michael