From: Clemens Hintze <c.hintze@...>
Date: 2002-03-27T04:27:38+09:00
Subject: Re: Difference between 'do' and 'begin'

In <PGEPJIFLPEPOHCKEEEIKAEDBDBAA.james@rubyxml.com> james@rubyxml.com writes:


> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Clemens Hintze [mailto:c.hintze@gmx.net]

(...)

> However, both Ruby in a Nutshell and the Pickaxe book refer to
> begin/end as blocks.  So, is it incorrect to refer to

>   begin
>     # some code
>   end

> as a block?

Oops! I had not recognized this ...

> Or is it block, but not the same sort of block as:

I would not call it a block. In one of the replies it was called
compound statement. I think this sounds not too bad!

If I had the task to invent a name, I would try to find a name for
e.g. the 'block' executed within a while-statement:

  while <cond>
    <how would you name these statements here?>
  end

and name the statements between 'begin' ... 'end' the same. Especially
as I can also use 'begin' ... 'end' to form a loop similar to a
'while' ... 'end':

  begin
    <statements here should have same name as above>
  end while <cond>

So I would think, they should named similar here ...

Just my 0.02Euro


Ciao,
\cle
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