From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2003-04-27T00:24:53+09:00
Subject: Re: block.call vs. yield

Hi,

In message "Re: block.call vs. yield"
    on 03/04/27, dblack@superlink.net <dblack@superlink.net> writes:

|I think that if the semantics of yield are to be generalized, they
|should be thought of as something other than the semantics of yield.
|It seems to me that the situation is somewhat like this:
|
|     type 1 semantics                     type 2 semantics
|   _____________________                 ___________________
|      |         |                          |              |
|      |         |                          |              |
|   methods    Proc#call                  yield        Proc#whatever
|
|in which case, yield and Proc#whatever share semantics, but there's no
|reason (except "historical reasons") to define them as "yield
|semantics".

Iff you can name it a good name.

The name "yield" tells you "how different from #call".  This is
important.  Other names (e.g. invoke) tells you the fact it's
different from #call, but not how.

But there still be possibility for the better name.

							matz.