http://simonwillison.net/2010-04-23T11:19:58+00:00Simon Willison2010-04-23T11:19:58+00:002010-04-23T11:19:58+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2010/Apr/23/blocks/#atom-tag

<p><strong><a href="http://tav.espians.com/ruby-style-blocks-in-python.html">Ruby-style Blocks in Python</a></strong></p> Yes, yes, yes, yes. A proposal for muli-line lambda support in Python that doesn’t trip up on significant whitespace. If this gets in before the proposed feature freeze I’ll be a very happy Pythonista. UPDATE: This is a post from over a year ago, and it looks like the proposal has since stalled. <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/blocks">blocks</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/python">python</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/ruby">ruby</a></p>

2009-11-16T14:27:15+00:002009-11-16T14:27:15+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2009/Nov/16/cocoa/#atom-tag

<p><strong><a href="http://www.macresearch.org/cocoa-scientists-xxxii-10-uses-blocks-cobjective-c">10 Uses for Blocks in C/Objective-C</a></strong></p> Part of the Cocoa for Scientists series, which is by far the best free Objective-C / Cocoa tutorial I’ve seen anywhere. <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/blocks">blocks</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/closures">closures</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/cocoa">cocoa</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/macos">macos</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/objective-c">objective-c</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/science">science</a></p>

2009-09-01T19:05:25+00:002009-09-01T19:05:25+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2009/Sep/1/siracusa/#atom-tag

<p><strong><a href="http://arstechnica.com/apple/reviews/2009/08/mac-os-x-10-6.ars">Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard: the Ars Technica review</a></strong></p> The essential review: 23 pages of information-dense but readable goodness. Pretty much everything I know about Mac OS X internals I learnt from reading John Siracusa’s reviews—this one is particularly juice when it gets to Grand Central Dispatch and blocks (aka closures) in C and Objective-C. <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/apple">apple</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/blocks">blocks</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/c">c</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/closures">closures</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/grandcentraldispatch">grandcentraldispatch</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/john-siracusa">john-siracusa</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/macos">macos</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/objective-c">objective-c</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/snowleopard">snowleopard</a></p>

2008-12-29T19:38:08+00:002008-12-29T19:38:08+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2008/Dec/29/blocks/#atom-tag

<p><strong><a href="http://www.mikeash.com/?page=pyblog/friday-qa-2008-12-26.html">Blocks in Objective-C</a></strong></p> Closures are coming soon to Objective-C - interesting syntax, a regular curly brace block preceded by a caret <code>^{ ... }</code>. <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/blocks">blocks</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/closures">closures</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/objective-c">objective-c</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/programming">programming</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/syntax">syntax</a></p>