From: Ben Lovell <benjamin.lovell@...>
Date: 2009-06-18T04:17:52+09:00
Subject: Re: lambda and a Proc

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On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 7:15 PM, aidy <aidy.lewis@googlemail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I am a bit unsure on what the difference is between a lambda and a
> Proc?
>
> hello = lambda { puts('aidy, aidy, aidy' ) }
> hello.call
>
> hello = Proc.new{ puts('aidy, aidy, aidy' ) }
> hello.call
>
> Cheers
>
> Aidy
>
>
There is a great description of the differences on wikipedia:

http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Ruby_Programming/Syntax/Method_Calls#Understanding_blocks.2C_Procs_and_methods

Give that a read.

Ben

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