rtilley wrote:
> Farrel Lifson wrote:
>> Does pass actually do anything like print to stdout "some_function not
>> yet defined"?
> 
> No, it's just a place holder.
> 

Empty methods are acceptable in Ruby, and they have a return value of 
nil.

def some_method
end

This way your code can call this method.  It just won't do anything 
useful until you go back and implement the method body later.

Jeff
www.softiesonrails.com

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