Re: fork dies

"Detering Dirk" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.apache.mod-ruby
Message-ID <[email protected]>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Eric Hodel [mailto:[email protected]]
> Juha-Jarmo Heinonen ([email protected]) wrote:
> > AFAIK {..} is an alias for do..end when used as a block.
> 
> Yes, and I find it 'ugly' :)
> 
> I really like the beauty of "fork and exit" as opposed to "exit if
> fork", FWIW :)
> 
> A really good example of the beauty of do ... end vs { ... } is in the
> ruby tests, there are constructs like:
> 
> Windows.dont do
>   ...
> end

AFAIK there is indeed a difference, as documented in the 'Programmin
Ruby'
book:
>>>>>>>>
The only difference between this notation and 
using braces to define blocks is precedence: 
do...end binds lower than ``{...}''.
<<<<<<<<<

Or has this changed with 1.8?

Bye
Det


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