This is all very well if you have a friendly, high level scripting language like Ruby, but I'm definitely glad I don't have to write a C compiler where functions can take arbitrary blocks of code.
> In an appropriately powerful language, it could be a function call.
> This is all very well if you have a friendly, high level scripting language like Ruby, but I'm definitely glad I don't have to write a C compiler where functions can take arbitrary blocks of code.
That's a surprisingly good setup because in Smalltalk(one of ruby's main ancestor languages)
if/else is a method which takes a block closure.
a ifTrue: [ l log: 'a is true'] ifFalse: [ 'a is false']
while
in ruby if else is a syntatic construct
if a
l.log ('a is true')
else
l.log ('a is false')
end
probably more for perceived clarity/comfortability then speeds sake.
