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by Huw Collingbourne.
Original Post: Book Of Ruby, Chapter 10: Blocks, Procs and Lambdas
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With the addition of Chapter 10, the Book Of Ruby now has 211 pages and comes complete with 168 small demo programs to illustrate every topic described in the text. Well, we've finally hit the half-way mark! The Book Of Ruby will eventually have 20 chapters and today I've added the tenth of these, which means only another ten to go.... ;-) This latest chapter deals with a powerful but, for many newcomers to Ruby, potentially highly confusing element of the language: Blocks. (...)