What do the different brackets in Ruby mean?

Question

In Ruby, what\'s the difference between {} and []?

{} seems to be used for both code blocks and hashes.

Are []

Answer 1

a few examples:

[1, 2, 3].class
# => Array

[1, 2, 3][1]
# => 2

{ 1 => 2, 3 => 4 }.class
# => Hash

{ 1 => 2, 3 => 4 }[3]
# => 4

{ 1 + 2 }.class
# SyntaxError: compile error, odd number list for Hash

lambda { 1 + 2 }.class
# => Proc

lambda { 1 + 2 }.call
# => 3