From: Ola Bini <ola.bini@...>
Date: 2008-04-17T21:02:56+09:00
Subject: Re: Rails broken with 1.8.7 bc Symbol#to_proc

Akinori MUSHA wrote:
> At Thu, 17 Apr 2008 19:13:17 +0900,
> Ola Bini wrote:
>   
>
> Thank you for the report.  We recognize the problem and will be fixing
> it shortly.
>
> http://rubyforge.org/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=19551&group_id=426&atid=22040
>
> It would be an option to bring the Rails' code in if the right way to
> fix the current implementation were to cost too much.
>
>   
Not sure if that's a good option. Rails is just the most obvious 
failure. I would imagine there is loads of Symbol#to_proc code in many 
places that will fail the same way.

> Yes, this behavior reflects the messy argument list handling in Ruby
> <=1.8 and we'll have to work it around.
>
>   
Yeah, JRuby has the same problem with the native version, actually...

Cheers

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