Shane Hathaway wrote:
"Block statements provide a mechanism for encapsulating patterns of
structure. Code inside the block statement runs under the control of an
object called a block iterator. Simple block iterators execute code
before and after the code inside the block statement. Block iterators
also have the opportunity to execute the controlled code more than once
(or not at all), catch exceptions, or receive data from the body of the
block statement.
That actually looks pretty reasonable.
Hmmm. "Patterns of structure." Maybe we could call it a
"struct" statement.
struct opening(foo) as f:
...
Then we could confuse both C *and* Ruby programmers at
the same time! :-)
[No, I don't really mean this. I actually prefer "block"
to this.]
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