From: Philipp Meier <meier@...>
Date: 2002-10-17T01:31:54+09:00
Subject: Re: passing on a block


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On Tue, Oct 15, 2002 at 03:18:29AM +0900, John Tromp wrote:
> I defined a Statespace class, which happens to encode states as integers
> in a range 0...nstates.
> I want to provide an iterator like
>=20
> def each
>   nstates.times { |i| yield i }
> end
>=20
> or i could write it as
>=20
> def each(&b)
>   nstates.times(&b)
> end
>=20
> Which is the better or more Ruby-esque way?
> Any difference in efficiency?

I would take the latter because of does not hard codes the arity of
#times.

-billy.

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