What's the equivalent to "method reference" in Ruby

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Published on 2010-04-20T19:00:04Z Indexed on 2010/04/20 19:03 UTC
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for instance in python it is possible to assign a method to a variable:

class MyClass 
    def myMethod(self):
        return "Hi"


 x = MyClass()
 method = x.myMethod

 print method() # prints Hi

I know this should be possible in Ruby, but I don't know what's the syntax.

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