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Ruby Ruby Foundations Procs & Lambdas Working With Procs & Lambdas

Michael Guren
Michael Guren
5,195 Points
Posted by Michael Guren
Michael Guren
5,195 Points

Why not have set_variable accept two arguments (kind, val)?

I'm not 100% clear on the value of a Proc in this example. Why wouldn't we just use:

def set_variable(kind,val) return [kind,val].join(": ") end