From: "Mauricio Fernández" <batsman.geo@...>
Date: 2004-11-14T18:19:25+09:00
Subject: Re: [DOCBUG] Proc#arity

On Sun, Nov 14, 2004 at 04:22:24PM +0900, Joel VanderWerf wrote:
> 
> An inconsistency in the docs for Proc#arity ? Here's what ri says:
> 
>      arguments. A +proc+ with no argument declarations returns -1, as it
>      can accept (and ignore) an arbitrary number of parameters.
> 
>         Proc.new {}.arity          #=>  0
> 
> $ ruby -v
> ruby 1.9.0 (2004-11-08) [i686-linux]


Thu Mar 18 16:22:38 2004  Yukihiro Matsumoto  <matz@ruby-lang.org>
[...]

        * eval.c (proc_arity): arity is now defined as number of
          parameters that would not be ignored. i.e. Proc.new{}.arity
          returns zero.  update test suites too.


http://rcrchive.net/rcr/show/227

-- 
Hassle-free packages for Ruby?
RPA is available from http://www.rubyarchive.org/