From: mhm26@... (matt)
Date: 2004-08-06T04:21:31+09:00
Subject: procs/blocks - blocks with procs, blocks with blocks?

Well, maybe not blocks with blocks but blocks with yield?  although
right now, I only have a fix for procs with blocks and not blocks with
blocks via blocks with yield when a proc block is not in stock...

class Proc
  alias __proc_block_call call
  alias __proc_block_indexer []
  
  def call(*args, &block)
    __proc_block_call(*(block.nil? ? args : args << block))
  end
  
  def [](*args, &block)
    __proc_block_indexer(*(block.nil? ? args : args << block))
  end
end

-----
usage

prc = Proc.new {|arg, proc_block|
  p arg
  proc_block[arg]
}

prc.call("Foo") {|*what|
  puts "Got #{what.length} whats -- #{what.inspect}"
}

produces:

"Foo"
Got 1 whats -- ["Foo"]


- also - it looks like the indexer function cannot take a block (parse
error) - why?