Feature #7906: Giving meaning to ->foo

• Status: Rejected
• Assignee: matz (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
• Target version: 2.1.0

[trans (Thomas Sawyer)]

=begin
I noticed that "(({->word}))" doesn't mean anything. i.e.

->foo
SyntaxError: (irb):4: syntax error, unexpected '\n', expecting keyword_do_LAMBDA or tLAMBEG
from /opt/Ruby/1.9.3-p327/bin/irb:12:in `'

If that is always so, then could it be given a meaning as a shorthand for (({method()}))? i.e.

->foo

would be the same as writing

method(:foo).to_proc

=end

[trans (Thomas Sawyer)]

Please fix. Sigh.

[ko1 (Koichi Sasada)]

• Description updated (diff)
• Assignee set to matz (Yukihiro Matsumoto)

[nobu (Nobuyoshi Nakada)]

• Description updated (diff)

It doesn't seem a good idea to me, because "foo" has different meanings, parameter and method name.

[matz (Yukihiro Matsumoto)]

• Status changed from Open to Rejected

See #7907