For gawds sake why would I want to do anything that silly, replacing something readable with the use of an ill-designed and ill-named nonsense? Yieiaild? There's nothing in the dictionary that would match the way this keyword is used in Ruby. Yeah, yield as a keyword related to coroutines, fine. You yield the execution and let someone outside the subroutine decide when to continue, but that's not what it means in Ruby!
sub test (&){
my $print = shift;
say "You are in the method";
$print->(1);
say "You are again back to the method";
$print->(2);
}
test { say "You are in the block $_[0]" };
is not only more readable, but also more extensible! You are not restricted to a single "callback" and if you need to pass the subroutine reference/closure/block (I know the differences, thank you very much) somewhere else you can! Try that in Ruby!
BTW, does the |a,b| finally declare new variables in Ruby or does it still reuse the a and b if they happen to be defined? Yeah, I know, a method in Ruby should not take more than four lines ... it doesn't matter you end up having hundreds of them.
Jenda
Enoch was right!
Enjoy the last years of Rome.
