Passing a method as a parameter in Ruby

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The comments referring to blocks and Procs are correct in that they are more usual in Ruby. But you can pass a method if you want. You call method to get the method and .call to call it:

def weightedknn( data, vec1, k = 5, weightf = method(:gaussian) )
  ...
  weight = weightf.call( dist )
  ...
end

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