From: MenTaLguY <mental@...>
Date: 2007-06-29T05:49:34+09:00
Subject: Re: Proc initialize method not called under certain circumstances

On Fri, 29 Jun 2007 05:43:14 +0900, "John Lam (CLR)" <jflam@microsoft.com> wrote:
> Proc.new {}   # prints "initialized"

Here, the Proc object is created the normal way.

> foo { }       # prints nothing

Here, no Proc is created (blocks are not reified as Proc objects unless
necessary, i.e. by an &-argument).

> lambda {}     # prints nothing

Here, the Proc object is being created "intrinsically", similar to how Array
objects are created with [], bypassing the generic creation/initialization
machinery.

-mental