From: Robert Dober <robert.dober@...>
Date: 2008-05-10T04:32:12+09:00
Subject: Re: "Real" Differences Between Python & Ruby

On Fri, May 9, 2008 at 8:01 PM, Max Cantor <maxcantor@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, May 9, 2008 at 1:29 PM, Avdi Grimm <avdi@avdi.org> wrote:
>> On Fri, May 9, 2008 at 1:13 PM, Max Cantor <maxcantor@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>  For example: No matter which
>>> way you slice it, "arr.each { |item| item.foo }" and its underlying
>>> implementation is unique to Ruby
>>
>> It is?
>
> Is there another language out there that lets you pass a "literal"
> block of code as a virtual argument so the called method can push
> arguments into the code block specified by | |s?

Of course, with minor syntactic change. It's called Smalltalk IIRC ;)

Robert
http://ruby-smalltalk.blogspot.com/

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