--Apple-Mail-10--405534925 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset -ASCII; formatðïwed On Dec 15, 2005, at 11:57 AM, ajmayo / my-deja.com wrote: > Also, I presume Ruby is a forward-referencing language only, unlike > Javascript, where I can declare a function after code which calls it. > Ruby didn't seem to like that much. How did you run into problems with this? irb(main):024:0> def a(x) irb(main):025:1> g(x) irb(main):026:1> end nil irb(main):027:0> def g(x) irb(main):028:1> puts x irb(main):029:1> end nil irb(main):030:0> a(5) 5 nil As regards your other question def bar(z) puts z end a ambda { |x| puts x } bar(a) Alternatively to pass a block to a function without yield... def bar(&block) block.call end bar { puts "hi!" } # prints hi --Apple-Mail-10--405534925--