From: Austin Ziegler <halostatue@...>
Date: 2008-12-08T21:55:23+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:20419] Re: Array#to_proc

On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 7:47 AM, Eust�quio Rangel
<eustaquiorangel@gmail.com> wrote:
> Some months ago I sent a patch to Rails proposing an Array#to_proc the
> way we already have a Symbol#to_proc:
> http://rails.lighthouseapp.com/projects/8994/tickets/1253-arrayto_proc
> As pointed on the discussion, we only had some few cases (on Rails) to
> add this method, but what do you guys think about it on the language
> itself, would be useful or it does not help anyway?

I think that this is a specialized use case for Rails and Rails-like
productions. I don't think that this is something that would be of
general purpose value, and I think it looks uglier than Symbol#to_proc
from a line-noise perspective.

-austin
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