From: "Ara.T.Howard" <ahoward@...>
Date: 2004-02-14T00:54:55+09:00
Subject: Re: return from yielded block

On Fri, 13 Feb 2004 nobu.nokada@softhome.net wrote:

> Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2004 15:08:34 +0900
> From: nobu.nokada@softhome.net
> Newsgroups: comp.lang.ruby
> Subject: Re: return from yielded block
> 
> Hi,
> 
> At Fri, 13 Feb 2004 14:54:56 +0900,
> Ara.T.Howard wrote in [ruby-talk:92771]:
> > the problem is that you can't 'return' from a block - so how is this done?
> 
> Return to where?  The next statement of yield?
> If so, you may want "next".

return a value.  i was not clear enough, let me try again:

def meth s
  x =
    block_meth do
      if s =~ /forty/
        return 40
      else
        return 0
      end
    end
  x + 2
end

def block_meth; yield; end

p(meth('forty')) # this prints 40 - i want it to print 42 


-a