From: cmic <cmic@...>
Date: 2009-11-23T00:00:09+09:00
Subject: newbie question

Hello

I noticed the following example somewhere

def mymethod(opts)
p opts
end
mymethod(:aaa => "something")

I'm wondering what this :aaa stands for. If I omit the
colon before the dummy aaa, it doesn't works.

Thanks for any hint/light.
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michel marcon (aka cmic)
sysadmin