From: gabriele renzi <surrender_it@...1.vip.ukl.yahoo.com>
Date: 2004-06-28T19:18:03+09:00
Subject: Re: Maybe IRB Bug?

il Mon, 28 Jun 2004 19:03:16 +0900, Mauricio Fern�ndez
<batsman.geo@yahoo.com> ha scritto::

>On Mon, Jun 28, 2004 at 06:52:57PM +0900, gabriele renzi wrote:
>> >> a.sort_by &(Array.instance_method(:size))
>> TypeError: wrong argument type UnboundMethod (expected Proc)
>
>Florian Gro� (flgr) thought of using #to_proc some time ago, something
>like:

yuk, thanks, I remember the trick.
But I was more in the mood of providing a method like this:
 ary.sort_by &getter(:size)

This has the advantage that #getter could accept some parameters and
return a more refined proc. Note that this does not actually save
typing :)

But to say the truth, I just dislike typing argument in blocks two
times, like
 do |x| x.foo end

I think I'll be happy with something like a 'default parameter' (say,
grovy has 'it' for this). Not that important, anyway.