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Building a Foundation with &blocks

What is a Block?

Blocks... What are they anyway? You've probably used them without even realizing it and most certainly have seen them, but do you know what they are?

If we wanted to take a simplistic approach at defining a block we could say:

A block is a chunk of code contained within the do..end or { curly braces } syntax that is to be executed at some point in time.

With that being said, if you've ever used the Enumerable#map or Enumerable#each method, you've probably used a block. Lets take a look at two different types of blocks before we go into more detail about what a block really is.

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au BufRead,BufNewFile jquery.*.js set ft=javascript syntax=jquery
set nocompatible
set autoindent
set tabstop=2
set showmatch
set vb t_vb=
set ruler
set nohls
set incsearch
syntax on

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var fs = require('fs');

function csvParser(filePath) {
	fs.readFile(filePath, 'utf8', function(err, data) {
		if (err) {
			throw err;
		} else {
			var result = [];
			var lines = data.split('\n');
			var headings = lines[0].split(',');