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Discovering ruby #2

Wolfram Kriesing - November 16, 2015 - tagged with: #ruby #learning

I know that the calling of functions can be quite noise-less, no parantheses and commas. But it also leaves me baffled at times. I can't get my head around this one either.

> "abc".sub(/./) {1}
=> "1bc"
> "abc".sub((/./), "1")
=> "1bc"

It might also because I have no docs at hand right now (due to being offline). In the first version I don't see if {1} is the second parameter to sub or the parameter given to a function returned by sub(/./). The second call makes sense, just strange that the second parameter must be a string here and not a block (which is what { and } mean, I suppose). Keep going, it will come to me some day :).