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Feature #16260

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Symbol#to_proc behaves like lambda, but doesn't aknowledge it

Added by zverok (Victor Shepelev) over 4 years ago. Updated over 3 years ago.

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Closed
Target version:
[ruby-core:95418]

Description

Seems that Symbol#to_proc returns Proc that has lambda semantics:

proc = :+.to_proc
proc.call(1, 2)   # => 3
proc.call([1, 2]) # ArgumentError (wrong number of arguments (given 0, expected 1))

But if you ask...

proc.lambda? # => false

That seems to be an inconsistency, which I'd like to clarify. There are obviously two ways to fix it:

  1. Make it respond true to lambda? (and mention the semantics in docs)
  2. Make it behave like non-lambda.

The second one seems to produce some useful behavior:

# Currently:
[1, 2].zip([3, 4]).map(&:+) # ArgumentError (wrong number of arguments (given 0, expected 1))

# With non-lambda:
class Symbol
  def to_proc
    proc { |o, *a| o.send(self, *a) }
  end
end

[1, 2].zip([3, 4]).map(&:+) # => [4, 6] 

Probably all of it was discussed when Symbol#to_proc was introduced, but as old NEWS-files doesn't link to tickets/discussions, I can't find the reasoning for current behavior.

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