From: Julian Leviston <julian@...>
Date: 2005-09-11T23:48:06+09:00
Subject: Re: Why? Blocks

You ROCK :-)

Man THANNNNKKKSSSS :)

It's gonna take me a little bit of study to work out blocks, lambdas  
and Proc objects! Far out.
But how awesome that Ruby can do that. Awesome! I'm like excited  
as... :) Every time I come up against a new problem domain, I get  
these awesome answers from these awesome people! {BIG VIRTUAL HUGS}  
thanks guys.

Julian.

On 09/09/2005, at 12:52 PM, Jamis Buck wrote:

> On Sep 8, 2005, at 8:49 PM, Julian Leviston wrote:
>
>
>> Why can I not do this:
>>
>> c = [1,2,3,4,5,6,6,7,8,10]
>> b = {|aVal| aVal / 5 == 0}
>> d = c.select(b)
>>
>> I would like to store sections of code so I don't have to repeat  
>> myself...
>>
>
> b = Proc.new {|aVal| aVal / 5 == 0}
> d = c.select(&b)
>
> - Jamis
>
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