From: ara.t.howard@...
Date: 2006-08-25T03:27:10+09:00
Subject: Re: do not understand this closure

On Fri, 25 Aug 2006, rak rok wrote:

> Is there any way to have a proc object be callable identically to a method,
> ie with the parentheses?  Is there a reason to keep the notation distinct?
>
> Thanks,
> -rr-

   harp:~ > cat a.rb
   def the_method() 'namespace one' end

   the_method = String.new 'namespace two'

   p the_method()
   p the_method


   harp:~ > ruby a.rb
   "namespace one"
   "namespace two"

that said, 1.9 has support for a_proc()

-a
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