From: klochner <klochner@...>
Date: 2009-01-29T06:22:37+09:00
Subject: Re: yield vs. return

On Jan 28, 4:04 pm, "F. Senault" <f...@lacave.net> wrote:
> Le 28 janvier 2009 à 21:09, klochner a écrit :
>
> > I see a lot of ruby programmers doing the latter, but consider the
> > former to be more straightforward.  There are a lot of cases where
> > yielding is more elegant than return, but I don't consider this to
> > be one of them.  Anyone care to weigh in?
>
> Depends on what you do with it.  I kinda like to use yield in "builder"
> statements where the code will we nested.
>
> The best (IMHO) is, of course, the freedom of :
>
> def funcfoo
>   yield foo if block_given?
>   foo
> end


thanks Fred, this sounds sane to me.