[Python-ideas] Ruby-style Blocks in Python Idea (alternative)

[Leonardo Santagada]

On Mar 9, 2009, at 9:13 PM, Jan Kanis wrote:

> def callback(param) as result with do_something(with_our(callback),
> other, args):
> 	print("called back with "+param)
> 	return foobar(param)
>
>
> this would be equivalent to
>
> def callback(param):
> 	print("called back with "+param)
> 	return foobar(param)
> 	
> result = do_something(with_our(callback), other_args)


Not only the equivalent code looks much cleaner, the only good thing  
it actually do (not having to first define a function to then use it)  
can be accomplished with a decorator.

Thanks GvR and all that finally shed some light in ruby blocks. I  
never understood what was so special about them, now I know it is  
nothing really. :)


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