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Nice explanation

I’ll check it out. Thank you.

I would say more broadly the innovation was two fold: 1) to make these features available in a syntactic form that would seem more familiar to programmers and 2) the powerful insig…

I agree blocks are closures. But they’re call stack aware closures. Which gives them _some_ of the power of continuations. I’m also sure you’re right that they’re not implemented u…

Yes Smalltalk has continuations. So it can do all of those things as well. But I don't think they're explicitly tied to blocks like they are in Ruby. This really isn't a problem fo…

I'd think the preferred way would be to implement them as a separate class. That'd be more in line with the design of other core classes (like TrueClass & FalseClass). It'd also ha…

Yeah, I think I've heard that too.

That's insightful

Blocks in Smalltalk (to my understanding) are closures. Blocks in Ruby are closures that also bring the call stack they were created in with them. One way to think of about it is t…

It seems you're pretty upset about your experience with Ruby. I'm sorry that's been the case for you. However, in Ruby blocks aren't just about flexibility, more importantly they'r…

Laziness is great for collections, and modeling the infinite but as a general model for programming it's a little loopy for my taste too ;-)

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Thank you for clarifying that.

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True, but I think the point of the article is that, in modern life, we tend to err strongly in the other direction.

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