From: William Djaja Tjokroaminata <billtj@...>
Date: 2002-09-05T22:47:41+09:00
Subject: Re: Is It Possible to Create Block from within C?

Thanks for the help.  So again and again, the key is apparently
"rb_iterate()".  Am I correct if I assume that we cannot create a
"physical" Ruby block in C (something which is of class Proc, which can
be "call"-ed)?

(Yesterday when I browsed the Ruby classes, there is no such thing as
"proc.c", even though Proc is one of the built-in classes.  So I assume
that Proc and Ruby block are "special", which belong only to the Ruby
parser/interpreter, but not accessible via the C API's.  Now I see where
Joel VanderWerf was going when he answered how to convert a Proc into a
block in C.)

Regards,

Bill
============================================================================
nobu.nokada@softhome.net wrote:
>>     obj.func() do |arg|
>>         statements
>>     end
>> 
> To call a method with block:

>     static VALUE
>     statements(VALUE arg, VALUE val)
>     {
>         return block_result;
>     }

>     static VALUE
>     call_func(VALUE obj)
>     {
>         return rb_funcall(obj, rb_intern("func"), 0);
>     }

>     rb_iterate(call_func, obj, statement, 0);

> -- 
> Nobu Nakada