High Order Messages in Python

[Alex Martelli]

bonono at gmail.com <bonono at gmail.com> wrote:

> could someone enlighten me what is the advantage of block over named
> function ?
> 
> One thing that I can see a difference may be lexical scope ?

"Yes, but" -- according to the latest Ruby book, the "mixed lexical
scope" of blocks is a highly controversial notion in the Ruby community;
so I wouldn't necessarily count it as an _advantage_ of Ruby blocks...


Alex