From: Chad Fowler <chad@...>
Date: 2003-11-15T22:36:24+09:00
Subject: Re: def

On Sat, 15 Nov 2003, T. Onoma wrote:

# what is this def?

A keyword

# it is not a method...?

No.

# it is not some sugar...?

Sort of. (But you could say that pretty much everything in modern 
languages is sugar).

# well might it be a lambda...?

No.

# just what is this def?
# 

See above.

# (funny we say def for define but not init for initialize)
# 

Not really.