Feature #9777
Updated by nobu (Nobuyoshi Nakada) almost 10 years ago
Currently different block objects such as a lambda can be converted into to a proc: http://www.ruby-doc.org/core-1.9.3/Proc.html#method-i-to_proc However you cannot turn a Proc instance into a lambda. Since a Proc and lambda behave differently sometimes you may want to convert between the two functionalities. One example is a `return` return inside of the block. In a lambda the `return` return keyword exits the closure, in a Proc the `return` return keyword raises an exception. There is currently no implementation standard way to convert a Proc to a lambda. I made a gem that makes this easier: https://github.com/schneems/proc_to_lambda but it seems overkill. If MRI introduces a `to_lambda` to_lambda method on Proc then we can standardize on an interface for this behavior. This question on stack overflow has been upvoted many times: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2946603/ruby-convert-proc-to-lambda. I think other Ruby developers would like this behavior supported by Ruby core.