From: Robert Dober <robert.dober@...>
Date: 2008-05-28T21:59:50+09:00
Subject: Re: OOP in Ruby?

On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 7:36 PM, David A. Black <dblack@rubypal.com> wrote:
Rick, Huw, David

you might be right, I finally understand what you mean know :).

I can esaily imagine a conceptual view in which you are right

def foo
  yield
end

foo {}

does not create a Proc object, I however believe, but agree that this
of minor importance,
that the interpreter creates a temporary proc object, how else could
Proc::new return the correct value?

I feel it is important to know that you can always get to an object
representing the block, that was good enough for me.

I start understanding better that indeed the lack of syntactic
facilities can be interpreted how you did, but it took me a while to
work it out :)

Just to be double sure I get you right, if one implemented Eric's
patch and we could write
pr = do 42 end
or = {|| 42 }
would you agree with my original statement?

Cheers
Robert

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