From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2004-02-14T14:17:34+09:00
Subject: Re: return from yielded block

Hi,

In message "Re: return from yielded block"
    on 04/02/14, "Ara.T.Howard" <ahoward@fattire.ngdc.noaa.gov> writes:

|> > 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 
|> 
|> Use break or next instead of return.

|are the semantics _exactly_ the same?

No.  "break" terminates "block_meth", "next" terminates "yield".

							matz.