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Old 05-25-2005, 09:53 AM   #100
dar512
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Quote:
Originally Posted by grant
I'm a fair programmer, I still don't understand:
Continuations
Closures
or why people think Best Practices are a good idea.
Reading Programming Ruby: The Pragmatic Programmers' Guide will give you a good start on continuations and closures. The Ruby language has both.

Best Practices, at least the way we use them, are just rules of thumb. They are a formalized equivalent of "Hey, you know what works for me?".
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