From: Patrick Li <patrickli_2001@...>
Date: 2008-09-02T01:49:21+09:00
Subject: Re: Request for Block local methods, and Proc syntax

The reason instance_eval shouldn't be used in that way is because it 
interferes with your scope in a very unintuitive way.

For example, you can't do something like this:

@source = "pic.gif"
html do
  image(@source)
end

You have to do something like this:
source = @source
html do
  image(source)
end

The reason, also, that I ask for a simpler syntax for procs, is so that 
we can eliminate the kludgy block argument syntax. I like Ruby, but I 
feel it's power is limited because of the complexity of it's syntax.

Smalltalk is *almost* like Ruby, except that it treats blocks (or 
closures as they call it) consistently, which makes it possible to write 
many control structures.
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