From: ara.t.howard@...
Date: 2006-08-25T03:50:31+09:00
Subject: Re: do not understand this closure

On Fri, 25 Aug 2006, Mauricio Fernandez wrote:

>> that said, 1.9 has support for a_proc()
>
> This used to work:
>
> $ cat proc.rb
> a = proc{|x| p x}
> (a)(1)
>
> ... but doesn't anymore.
>
> $ ruby19 -v proc.rb
> ruby 1.9.0 (2006-08-13) [i686-linux]
> proc.rb:2: warning: useless use of a variable in void context
> proc.rb:2: syntax error, unexpected '(', expecting $end
> (a)(1)
>
>
> Right now, it's
>
> RUBY_RELEASE_DATE            # => "2006-08-13"
> RUBY_VERSION                 # => "1.9.0"
> a = proc{|x| x+1}
> a.(2)                        # => 3

huh.  so '()' is a method name now?

-a
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