From: ts <decoux@...>
Date: 2006-04-20T00:00:28+09:00
Subject: Re: understanding the behavior of Method#to_proc

>>>>> "E" == Eli Bendersky <eliben@gmail.com> writes:

E> plus_proc = plus.to_proc
E> p plus_proc.call(10) # prints 10

E> Is unclear...
E> 1) How does it work ?

 not like you think :-)

moulon% ruby -e 'p 2.method("+").to_proc.call(10)'
12
moulon% 


E> 4) Have the 'bind' and 'unbind' methods of Method / UnboundMethod
E> anything in common with Proc#binding or the Binding class ?

 well #bind associate a Binding with an UnboundMethod

E> 5) Have Proc#binding and the Binding class anything in common ? How
E> about Kernel#binding ?

moulon% ruby -e 'p = proc { }; p p.binding.class'
Binding
moulon% 

moulon% ruby -e 'p binding.class'
Binding
moulon% 


E> Additionally, the following, IMHO demostrates a very surprising and
E> unnatural behavior of to_proc:

 good question :-)



Guy Decoux