Am 2012-01-29 um 13:17 schrieb Dave Mason:

> 
> On 2012-Jan-29, at 4:22 , Stéphane Ducasse wrote:
> 
>> is there a naming convention for such blocks. In the chapter I called them 
>> escaping block 
>> but I also used continuation blocks. (I do not like continuation blocks 
>> since to me it is unclear) but 
>> if this is a convention I would follow it.
> 
> Continuation blocks is wrong - continuations are a particular thing and this 
> would be confusing.
> 
> Escaping blocks is fine, but I call them returning blocks. I could see an 
> argument for either

I think these are "blocks with non-local return" :)
(as opposed to blocks with "local return" like [:x :y| x*x. x + y])

Best
        -Tobias

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