From: Curt Hibbs <curt@...>
Date: 2004-05-11T03:25:34+09:00
Subject: Re: in search of a compelling reason to use ruby....

rolo wrote:
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jim Weirich [mailto:jim@weirichhouse.org]
>
>    task :compile do |t|
>      java.compile t.source
>    end
>
> rolo writes:
>
> What is this task..? a method..?

Yes, task is a method, :compile is a symbol being passed to the method task
as its first and only parameter, and do..end is the code block also passed
to the method task.

Curt