On Mon, Jul 09, 2007 at 09:58:23AM +0900, 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@...> 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.
That sounds pretty good -- and more consistent across the language, too.
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