return-from-lambda viewed as dangerous, good alternatives

[Mark Mahieu]

On 7 Jan 2010, at 23:06, Jonathan Gibbons wrote:

> So, in a closure, return means 
> return from the enclosing closure; in a control abstraction, return 
> means return from the enclosing method

Unless the control abstraction is in a closure, in which case an enclosed return would presumably return from the closure.

(I believe Ruby hedges its bets and offers different behaviour in 1.8 and 1.9).

Mark