From: Nikolai Weibull <now@...>
Date: 2010-09-13T02:57:43+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:32342] Re: Making custom_lambda() work

On Sun, Sep 12, 2010 at 19:37, Tinco Andringa <mail@tinco.nl> wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 18:57, Nikolai Weibull <now@bitwi.se> wrote:
> > why is the calling of lambdas with parentheses such an important issue?

> Using :[] or :call is just not the first thing you'd expect to
> use.

That���s a very personal opinion.  To me, lambdas in Ruby are, like
everything else, objects that have a bunch of methods, one of them
being #call.

> It kind of feels like lambda's are something that were added to
> ruby as an afterthought.

For this one reason?