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Blocks come from smalltalk too: http://web.cecs.pdx.edu/~harry/musings/SmalltalkOverview.html#Blocks http://web.cecs.pdx.edu/~harry/musings/SmalltalkOverview.ht

• rtomayko 16y ago
  Updated. Thanks!
• flatwhatson 16y ago
  Blocks are also available in Perl, in the form of anonymous subroutines. They follow Perlish conventions for argument handling (rather than having a neat inline syntax like Smalltalk or Ruby), but they're most definitely the same thing! my $block = sub { say "w00t, blocks!" }; my $closure = sub { $block->(); say "w00t, closures!" }; You'll have to look further for something Ruby does that Perl doesn't :)
  • gte910h 16y ago
    Yeah, smalltalk blocks are almost identical to ruby blocks. Article just acted like that was a ruby invention (which they corrected) My comment had nothing to do with perl.
    • flatwhatson 16y ago
      I probably should have replied to rtomayko's comment rather than your own. I'd edit the tree, but it's immutable!
  • draegtun 16y ago
    And in Perl6 you can drop the sub bit: my $block = { say "w00t, blocks!" }; And there are also pointy blocks for neater stuff: my $pointy_block = -> $text { say "$text, blocks" }; $pointy_block("ne@t");