[Mono-list] Iterator hello world.

[Jonathan Pryor]

On Wed, 2003-05-07 at 04:56, Erik Bågfors wrote:
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Miguel can better answer the iterator question.

> In ruby you also have blocks which could be viewed as anonymous
> methods.  For example you could write this
> 
> DoTimes(3) {|x| print(x) }
> 
> I think I read that something like that was about to show up in C#? Am I
> correct?
> 
> /Erik

Anyonymous methods/closures have been proposed for the next version of
C#.  It builds off the delegate mechanism -- the anonymous method is
turned into a class+function, and a delegate to the function is
returned.  You can also refer to class members & local variables, as
with full closures.

The C# version of your example could be:

	delegate void DoTimesBlock (int n);

	public static void DoTimes (int n, DoTimesBlock b) {
		for ( ; n > 0; --n)
			b (n);
	}

	public static void Main () {
		DoTimes (3, new DoTimesBlock (n) {
			Console.WriteLine (n);
		});
	}

Of course, anonymous methods haven't been finalized, so things may
change.

 - Jon