TIL that the main difference between a Proc and a lambda in Ruby is that lambdas act like how I would already assume Procs do

@cat would you consider this confusion of the highest order?

@thingywott I think this is a mathematics joke and I have to warn you I don’t actually know what a mathematic is

@cat oops, sorry..!

passing around lambdas and procs are just examples of high order programming

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@thingywott oh ok

that’s a weird way to put it I guess

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