From: Luke Ivers <lukeivers@...>
Date: 2007-02-10T00:09:14+09:00
Subject: Re: Finding help

Luke Ivers wrote:
> I'm wanting to figure out what the &: syntax does, but I'm not exactly 
> sure
> how to search for it given that it contains special characters... a 
> search
> on google for "ruby &:" doesn't really give me anything worth looking 
> at,
> and I just checked through the first edition of the Pickaxe (I don't own 
> the
> second edition), and couldn't find anything in there, either (although,
> sometimes I miss really obvious things, so I suppose it's possible I 
> just
> missed it in there).
> 
> If someone could either explain it to me, or point me in the direction 
> of
> something that explains it, I would greatly appreciate it.
> 
> (And I also tried searching on ruby-forum.org for &:... it returns
> "Application Error")
> 
> Thanks.

And, I think I just figured it out... it's using a symbol to reference a 
function, and an & to turn it into a block?  Then you can send a 
function (wrapped in a closure) to another function expecting a block?

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