From: Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk <qrczak@...>
Date: 2002-07-06T20:09:19+09:00
Subject: Re: a new block parameter/variable notation (Re: ruby-dev summary 17252-17356)

Wed, 12 Jun 2002 10:43:09 +0900, Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@ruby-lang.org> pisze:

> Assuming we choose the latter, I chose several candidates for
> the fix.  From the constraints, we need two new notations to fix
> the problem, one for block parameters and one for in-block variables.

This is what I will use in some language for anonymous function
parameters:
    for x, y do ... end
and for creation of a new variable:
    var x = initial_value

Maybe some variation of this syntax would fit Ruby.

> Man, it took me hours to write this mail.  Why you guys don't read Japanese?

Why don't you read Polish? :-)

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