[ruby-core:41443] Re: [ruby-trunk - Bug #5694] Proc#arity doesn't take optional arguments into account.

Maybe we can add a new arity_range method that does this?


On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 3:49 PM, Thomas Sawyer <[e-mail]> wrote:

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> Issue #5694 has been updated by Thomas Sawyer.
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> I never quite understood why ranges were never used. Something like:
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>  lambda{}.arity => 0
>  lambda{|a| }.arity => 1
>  lambda{|a,b| }.arity => 2
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>  lambda{|a=1| }.arity => 0..1
>  lambda{|a,b=2| }.arity => 1..2
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>  lambda{|*a| }.arity => -1
>  lambda{|a,*b| }.arity => 1..-2
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>  lambda{|a,b=2,*c| }.arity => 1..-3
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> Bug #5694: Proc#arity doesn't take optional arguments into account.
> http://redmine.ruby-lang.org/issues/5694
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> Author: Marc-Andre Lafortune
> Status: Assigned
> Priority: Normal
> Assignee: Yukihiro Matsumoto
> Category:
> Target version:
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> Currently:
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>    ->(foo = 42){}.arity # => 0, should be -1
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> This is contrary to the documentation and to what we should expect from
> the equivalent method definition.
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> Fixed in trunk, requesting backport for the 1.9 line.
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