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steventhedev
FYI - the ampersand syntax is only in function calls, so the following will fail:

    &set.call(1)
Whereas this will not:

    (1..30).select(&set)
Generally speaking, & is syntactic sugar for .to_proc, but only within function calls.
byroot
> & is syntactic sugar for .to_proc, but only within function calls

It's not exactly that. & is the syntax to pass a variable as a block to a method. And ruby will implicitly call to_proc on the object it receive as a block.

I know it seems pedantic, but there is a difference.