Brian Hartin
11/3/2006 7:20:00 PM
I'm not sure, but I suspect that closures would be hard to understand
unless one had a good understanding of variable binding, scope, etc.
-----Original Message-----
From: James Edward Gray II [mailto:james@grayproductions.net]
Sent: Friday, November 03, 2006 11:41 AM
To: ruby-talk ML
Subject: Re: Just a question to throw out there...
On Nov 3, 2006, at 11:06 AM, Hartin, Brian wrote:
> As you've
> seen, passing blocks of code as arguments comes up fairly early in the
> reading. This is a fairly advanced idea for someone new to
> programming.
Are you sure? I honestly don't know, I'm just asking. I'm wondering
if it was hard *because* we are experienced programmers. Newcomers
don't have that existing knowledge to overcome.
For example, iterators were quite a bit of adjustment for me when I
was new to Ruby. I think the main barrier for me though was mapping
all my old loop knowledge to the new way of doing things.
James Edward Gray II
****************************************************************************
This email may contain confidential material.
If you were not an intended recipient,
Please notify the sender and delete all copies.
We may monitor email to and from our network.
****************************************************************************