From: 7stud -- <bbxx789_05ss@...>
Date: 2007-11-01T03:56:01+09:00
Subject: Re: .each do |foo, bar| what does bar do?

7stud -- wrote:
> 
> I'm not getting it.  With this definition:
> 
> def each(&a_block)
> 
> when I call:
> 
> each() {some block}
> 
> ruby converts the block to a Proc object and assigns it to the variable 
> a_block.  So, it seems to me that after ruby passes the args specified 
> in the method call to each()...

Whoops.  That doesn't make any sense.  That should say something like:

After ruby gathers up the block, converts it to a Proc object, and
assigns the Proc object to the parameter variable a_block...
> the block would no longer be accessible 
> inside the method--only the Proc object assigned to a_block would be 
> accessible. 
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