Ruby Code blocks - This single language feature in Ruby, has changed the way I think about code. Blocks (called closures in other languages) are definitely, for me, one of the coolest features of Ruby.
Will we have closures in Java 1.7 ? I hope we do.
Another subtle feature, though not obvious, is that Ruby has revived the programmer in me.
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Posted by Satish Talim
1 response so far ↓
1 Mike Harris // Feb 6, 2007 at 7:36 pm
Ruby makes programming fun. Gld to have you on board.
Small detail: Blocks really are method parameters. The block structure
[1,2,3].each { |x| puts x }
is just syntactic sugar for this
func = lambda { |x| puts x }
[1,2,3].each(&func)
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