newbie question

[cmic]

Hello

I noticed the following example somewhere

def mymethod(opts)
p opts
end
mymethod(:aaa => "something")

I'm wondering what this :aaa stands for. If I omit the
colon before the dummy aaa, it doesn't works.

Thanks for any hint/light.
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michel marcon (aka cmic)
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[Luis Lavena]

On Nov 22, 11:55 am, cmic <c...@live.fr> wrote:
> Hello
>
> I noticed the following example somewhere
>
> def mymethod(opts)
> p opts
> end
> mymethod(:aaa => "something")
>
> I'm wondering what this :aaa stands for. If I omit the
> colon before the dummy aaa, it doesn't works.
>

Is because 'aaa' is undefined, while :aaa is a symbol

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