From: ara.t.howard@...
Date: 2006-08-25T04:27:39+09:00
Subject: Re: do not understand this closure

On Fri, 25 Aug 2006, Mauricio Fernandez wrote:

>> huh.  so '()' is a method name now?
>
> nope, it's just sugar standing for #call:
>
> RUBY_VERSION                                       # => "1.9.0"
> RUBY_RELEASE_DATE                                  # => "2006-08-13"
> a = Object.new
> def a.call(x); x+1 end
> a.(2)                                              # => 3

hmmm.  seems pointless.  unless i can do

   a_method_or_proc(arg)

it one more chare than

   a_proc[arg]

   a_method[arg]

oh well, thanks for the info!

-a
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