From: Akinori MUSHA <knu@...>
Date: 2008-04-17T22:12:07+09:00
Subject: Re: Rails broken with 1.8.7 bc Symbol#to_proc

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At Thu, 17 Apr 2008 21:02:56 +0900,
Ola Bini wrote:
> 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.

You may be right, while there is a good use for the method also.

Let me consider a while.

> > 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...

Good news is it got better in 1.9, bad news is it is almost impossible
to bring the changes in by now.

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