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		viraptor 11 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: RubyLLM: A delightful Ruby way to work with AI It comes with the downside that if you want to pass the function itself around, you need to do f=something.method(:the_function), and then f.call(args). It's not a huge deal, but... meh.

kaiuhl 11 months ago | [–]

But in general, ruby code only passes anonymous functions and, in those cases, the syntax is beautiful.

vidarh 11 months ago | [–]

You might know this, but you can also do f.(args) or f[args] in the latter case. It's still a bit meh, but slightly less verbose.

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