From: Ron Jeffries <ronjeffries@...>
Date: 2001-11-25T16:24:10+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:26432] Re: what's the & in parameter listings?

On Sat, 24 Nov 2001 19:09:02 GMT, Dave Thomas
<Dave@PragmaticProgrammer.com> wrote:

>If the method is called with a block, convert that block to a proc
>object and store a reference in the & parameter:

Y'know, now that I think of it, that whole & thing is odd. What was
wrong with just letting blocks be objects responding to call(x, y,
....) or better yet value(x, y, ...) ?

Ronald E Jeffries
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