Sigh. Yes, I am aware of the technicalities you describe. I thought my point was clear without my needing to be pedantically accurate. In many languages (eve

Sigh. Yes, I am aware of the technicalities you describe. I thought my point was clear without my needing to be pedantically accurate. In many languages (even in JS!) you can just map a function point-free, rather than having to introduce a variable just because syntax demands it, or worry about which syntax to use depending on if the "function" you're calling is a method on the object being mapped or something else. It's all noise. > you can do that without an expllcit block already, by using the Object#method method, which returns a Proc that is equivalent to calling the method: > users.map &method(:do_something) Again, I am aware, and the ugliness of that solution proves the point I was trying to make -- it is even worse than the block syntax with a variable.