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Alternative Block Syntaxes

Alternative Block Syntaxes

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

Next to the syntax shown before, using do and end, Ruby comes with an alternative syntax, which uses curly braces for defining a block.

These two statements do exactly the same:

Ruby
5.times do
  puts "Oh, hello!"
end
5.times { puts "hello!" }

Both statements define a ...

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