On Aug 12, 2006, at 12:41 PM, Dave Thomas wrote:

> Yeah, that's true. I don't need to pass it in: it was there from  
> the original example, where the block could interrogate the state  
> of the button. Sorry it was confusing.

Thanks for the quick reply, Dave. I've been using Ruby off and on for  
awhile now but I never felt that i dug in and really understood it.  
Hence the picky questions.

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