Why Ruby?

[Lutger Blijdestijn]

Adam D.  Ruppe wrote:

> so wrote:
>> Am i alone thinking D one better here?
> 
> No, I find foreach to be significantly better than the ruby
> blocks too. I recently argued on the gentoo forums that
> they are virtually equivalent too:
> http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-6500059.html#6500059
> 
> opApply is implemented with a delegate!

You can't compare foreach to code blocks. foreach is just one function that 
enjoys syntactic sugar, whereas code block syntax is available for every 
function in ruby.