Hi,

I just wanted to mention that Apple also added 'Closures' as 'Blocks' to Objective-C (respectively C):

https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/Cocoa/Conceptual/ProgrammingWithObjectiveC/WorkingwithBlocks/WorkingwithBlocks.html

Best,
Manfred



On Thu, Apr 17, 2014 at 4:45 PM, Yuriy Tymchuk <yuriy.tymchuk@me.com> wrote:
It���s like saying that we have to run Pharo on JVM because everyone is doing that. In 80s block was invented. Why should we rename it because of some other languages?

Uko

On 17 Apr 2014, at 16:35, Alexandre Bergel <alexandre.bergel@me.com> wrote:

> Well��� the whole community of programming language call a closure a closure. Calling a block what is actually a closure may not be a well-marketed move in my opinion.
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> On Apr 17, 2014, at 10:29 AM, Sebastian Sastre <sebastian@flowingconcept.com> wrote:
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>> On Apr 17, 2014, at 10:08 AM, Yuriy Tymchuk <yuriy.tymchuk@me.com> wrote:
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>>> I would rather rename is to Block, as everyone is calling it a ���block���.
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>> That might be actually a good idea
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>> PS: thinking in that line there is also ���Context��� as, conceptually, what these blocks of code want to do is to keep the evaluation in a specific context. But to ease know-how transference and type less I���d rather go with the most popular name, as you suggested: ���Block'
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