Re: Yield should be renamed call_block


On Jul 8, 2007, at 7:58 PM, Yukihiro Matsumoto wrote:

Hi,

In message "Re: Yield should be renamed call_block"
on Mon, 9 Jul 2007 09:10:23 +0900, Bharat Ruparel <bruparel@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

|I find it fascinating and quite a bit true. However, I have to always
|mentally translate the keyword "yeild" to mean "call_block".

The "yield" keyword is used for this purpose from the ages of
languages for example in CLU. So if you learn the history and the
culture, you will find less problem.

I am not going to rename it. But in far future (3.0? maybe), the
keyword will be removed from the language, and you will access blocks
via block arguments of methods.

matz.

to the OP, Of course with your won individual modules/libraries loaded/required, you can alias yield to be whatever isn't already taken by something else. Ideas for aliases: yield_to, call_block, step_out, segway, divert, fork, short_fork, lunch_break, junk_time, call_junk, goto ((hehehe...))

John Joyce

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