Nadia and Saron start Chapter 7. They talk about hash tables, including how we save and retrieve values from them, hash collisions, and rehashing.

Ruby Under A Microscope - Ep 22 (Ch 7 pg 166-180)

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Nadia and Saron finish Chapter 8. They discuss the proc object, changing local variables after lambda has already been called, and calling lambda more than once in the same scope.

Ruby Under A Microscope - Ep 26 (Ch 8 pg 211-217)

Nadia and Saron continue with Chapter 8. They look at lambdas and procs, including treating functions as first-class citizens, stack vs. heap memory, and how Ruby saves a string value.

Ruby Under A Microscope - Ep 25 (Ch 8 pg 203-211)

Nadia and Saron start Chapter 8. They discuss blocks! We learn about closures and which is faster: a 'while' loop or passing a block to 'each'.

Ruby Under A Microscope - Ep 24 (Ch 8 pg 191-202)

Nadia and Saron finish Chapter 7! They discuss how Ruby implements hash functions and hash optimisation in Ruby 2.0.

Ruby Under A Microscope - Ep 22 (Ch 7 pg 166-180)

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