in Python, it works like: foo(a, b, lambda x: x+2) or foo2(a, b, foo): foo() # t...

natrius · on May 31, 2009

Right, but you can't have multi-line anonymous functions, which are pleasant to use in Ruby and JavaScript.

grandalf · on May 31, 2009

True, but you can just write a non-anyonymous function in the current scope, which can be passed as boo or called as boo():

  def test():
    def boo(x):
      x += 2
      x += 3
      return x
    something_else(boo, 33, "hi")

  test()

This is equivalent to how procs are often used in Ruby...