From: Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@...>
Date: 2006-06-16T16:51:28+09:00
Subject: Re: Symbol#to_proc Problem

Hi,

In message "Re: Symbol#to_proc Problem"
    on Fri, 16 Jun 2006 10:40:48 +0900, Elliot Temple <curi@curi.us> writes:

|it doesn't work for reversing arrays:

|irb(main):023:0> [[1,2,3], [4,5,6], [7,8,9]].map &:reverse
|NoMethodError: undefined method `reverse' for 1:Fixnum

Good point.  The ActiveSupport Symbol#to_proc consider an array as a
group of a receiver and method arguments.  It was a design choice.
You need to ask the rationale behind this design to the rails list.

As you've stated, the alternative is making everything a receiver.
I think either choice is both good and bad.  Personally I prefer the
latter, it's more consistent.  But compatibility problem would arise.

							matz.