Hi David,

I have to agree with Bob Jarvis here: imagine a nested loop to 
iterate over a multi-dimensional array, you would have to chase 
through N methods in order to find out what is going on (where N is 
the number of dimensions) etc etc.

To me, blocks in Smalltalk are about how to represent program flow in 
an object oriented manner (sort of cheating really!).

For example,

in C:
   for (i = 1; i <= 10; i++) { statement }

in Smalltalk:
   1 to: 10 do: [ :i | statement ].


Sort of looks the same doesn't it?  (But we all know that it works 
quite differently.)



But you are right in that blocks are really classless methods.


Karl