From: Rick DeNatale <rick.denatale@...>
Date: 2008-05-14T06:58:20+09:00
Subject: Re: lambda, ->, haskell, and so on

On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 9:35 AM, Paul Brannan <pbrannan@atdesk.com> wrote:
> On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 12:25:10PM +0900, ara.t.howard wrote:
>  > anonymous = (){ 42 }
>
>  foo (){ 42 } # is this passing a block to foo or is it passing an
>              # anonymous function as the first argument to foo?

Well in this case, since it's the ONLY argument and therefore the last
as well as the first, I think there's precious little difference other
than whether or not a proc/lambda is created, or none if foo is
defined as:

def foo(&b)
end

rather than

def foo
end



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