On Wed, 12 Oct 2005, Yukihiro Matsumoto wrote:

> Hi,
>
> In message "Re: Default argument values for blocks"
>    on Wed, 12 Oct 2005 02:40:48 +0900, "Ara.T.Howard" <Ara.T.Howard / noaa.gov> writes:
>
> |>  foo = ->(foo="bar"){puts foo}
>
> |-> means lambda?
>
> Yes, as in Perl6.  "lambda" here means lambda in other languages, not
> the lambda method in Ruby.

by that you mean it is a 'real' method - not a proc object?

i like -> btw.  though =>> has a bit more 'weight'.

regards.

-a
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