From: "jeremyevans0 (Jeremy Evans) via ruby-core" <ruby-core@...>
Date: 2025-09-06T06:58:38+00:00
Subject: [ruby-core:123183] [Ruby Bug#21563] Misleading error message when `to_proc` does not return a Proc in an Object used as a &block argument

Issue #21563 has been updated by jeremyevans0 (Jeremy Evans).


I submitted a PR to make the error messages for & consistent with */**: https://github.com/ruby/ruby/pull/14463

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Bug #21563: Misleading error message when `to_proc` does not return a Proc in an Object used as a &block argument
https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/21563#change-114514

* Author: soulcutter (Bradley Schaefer)
* Status: Open
* ruby -v: ruby 3.4.5 (2025-07-16 revision 20cda200d3) +PRISM [arm64-darwin24]
* Backport: 3.2: UNKNOWN, 3.3: UNKNOWN, 3.4: UNKNOWN
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When a class implements `#to_proc` it should always return a Proc. Nonetheless bugs are possible, and when an implementation returns something else, and is used as a block argument to a method, you get an error that claims that the argument type is the implementing class rather than the type that was returned from `to_proc`.


Reproduction
```
 class SayHi
   def call = "hi"
   def to_proc = "obviously not a proc"
 end

 def callablock(&block) = block.call
 
 callablock &SayHi.new # wrong argument type SayHi (expected Proc) (TypeError)
```

In real-world code it may not be _this_ obvious that `to_proc` is returning the wrong type, and so I would expect the error would report the type of object returned by `to_proc` so that you have a more-direct path to understanding the misbehavior. In this case I would expect:

    wrong argument type String (expected Proc)

Or maybe something more-descriptive as an error message, but I don't have a concrete suggestion for that.



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