Ruby Procs
Blocks are not objects, but they can be converted into objects of class Proc. This can be done by calling the lambda method of the class Object. A block created with lambda acts like a Ruby method. If you don't specify the right number of arguments, you can't call the block.
Proc objects are blocks of code that have been bound to a set of local variables. The class Proc has a method call that invokes the block. The program p024proccall.rb illustrates this.
The output is:
Remember you cannot pass methods into other methods (but you can pass procs into methods), and methods cannot return other methods (but they can return procs).
The next example shows how methods can take procs. Example p025mtdproc.rb
The output is:
Here's another example of passing arguments using lambda.
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