Alternative Block Syntaxes

Get to know some alternative syntaxes that we use for blocks in Ruby.

An alternative way to define blocks

Along with the syntax shown before, using do and end, Ruby comes with an alternative syntax, which uses curly braces to define a block. These two statements do exactly the same thing:

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