From: eregontp@... Date: 2020-06-14T11:48:33+00:00 Subject: [ruby-core:98801] [Ruby master Feature#12901] Anonymous functions without scope lookup overhead Issue #12901 has been updated by Eregon (Benoit Daloze). @dsisnero What's the `self` in those "anonymous functions"? I think no `self` would be very confusing in Ruby, e.g., `puts some_expression` wouldn't work. Serializing a Proc is hard because it needs to serialize code and captured objects. If you need to serialize self, I think it's no easier than serializing a regular Proc (which is theoretically possible, but hard, and e.g., what if the process deserializing doesn't have the class of `self`?). BTW, they're not anonymous in your case, so it seems you're conflating many issues in one here. multi-method also seems orthogonal to me. ---------------------------------------- Feature #12901: Anonymous functions without scope lookup overhead https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/12901#change-86163 * Author: schneems (Richard Schneeman) * Status: Open * Priority: Normal ---------------------------------------- Right now if you are writing performance sensitive code you can get a performance bump by not using anonymous functions (procs, lambdas, blocks) due to the scope lookup overhead. https://twitter.com/apotonick/status/791167782532493312?lang=en I would like to be able to create an anonymous function and specify I don't need it to perform the lookup when called. I am thinking that this code: ~~~ Proc.new(scope: false) {|var| puts var } ~~~ Would be the equivalent of ~~~ def anon(var) puts var end ~~~ If you call it while trying to access something from outside of the scope it would error ~~~ var = "hello" Proc.new(scope: false) { puts var }.call # => NameError: undefined local variable or method `var' for main:Object ~~~ An example of a case where this could be used is found in https://github.com/rails/sprockets/pull/417. In this case we are getting rid of anonymous functions in favor of a method created with refinements. This solution works but it was not an obvious optimization. It would be convenient to have a syntax for defining anonymous functions that do not need access to caller scope. -- https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/ Unsubscribe: