Re: Yield should be renamed call_block

> On Mon, Jul 09, 2007 at 09:58:23AM +0900, Yukihiro Matsumoto wrote:
> > 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.