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Re:Ask HN: What does Ruby have that Python doesn't? by aconbere on Friday August 22, 2008 @08:26PM (#284362)
sigh yeah... you could do that, but you often times you have to deal with methods that aren't invoked that way.

http://blog.sidu.in/2007/11/ruby-blocks-gotchas.html

is a good run down of some of the problems here

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Re:Ask HN: What does Ruby have that Python doesn't? by shevy on Saturday August 23, 2008 @07:31AM (#284570)
No it is not. You dodged the question again, by throwing a hardly related blog of someone else at it.

How many people will use yield _AND_ self.send in the same method please?! That seems like an awfully complicated and contrived example. Who the heck does this?

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