From: Kent Dahl <kentda@...>
Date: 2002-03-27T01:27:24+09:00
Subject: Re: Difference between 'do' and 'begin'

james@rubyxml.com wrote:
> However, both Ruby in a Nutshell and the Pickaxe book refer to begin/end as
> blocks.

Ouch... 

I've been thinking about this problem ever since I held a small
introduction to Ruby earlier this month. I did my best to seperate the
two concepts, but it seemed to confuse people nonetheless. We need a
better name for the begin/end construct, and preferably something that
helps us talk about "blocks of code" in contrast to Ruby blocks.

Perhaps knowing the Japanese words for block in the Ruby-block sense and
for block in the "compound-statement" sense would give some interesting
options?

(Can't hurt learning kids some more usable Japanese phrases than ninja
weapons and Pokemon names ;-)


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