------ art_41612_22925377.1171033472387 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline I'm wanting to figure out what the &: syntax does, but I'm not exactly sure how to search for it given that it contains special characters... a search on google for "ruby &:" doesn't really give me anything worth looking at, and I just checked through the first edition of the Pickaxe (I don't own the second edition), and couldn't find anything in there, either (although, sometimes I miss really obvious things, so I suppose it's possible I just missed it in there). If someone could either explain it to me, or point me in the direction of something that explains it, I would greatly appreciate it. (And I also tried searching on ruby-forum.org for &:... it returns "Application Error") Thanks. ------ art_41612_22925377.1171033472387--