From: Henrik Schmidt <no.spam@...>
Date: 2007-05-27T02:05:20+09:00
Subject: Re: local variables vs. methods

Hakusa@gmail.com wrote:
>> Basically, I'm looking for the same thing here. What possible use can
>> there be for this feature? I don't get it.
> 
> Thought of something:
> I still don't really know how to use a proc or anything like that, but
> it seems to me ...
> 
> proc = Proc.new # How you initialize a proc makes me think that a proc
> is just another type of a variable.

It is.

> 
> So you could overload your method with a variable so that a proc which
> does a different thing is called. If you can see why overloading with
> a method could be good, you can see why this could be good.

Well, if you would like proc to do something different then just assign 
a different Proc to it. Also, I don't think you can overload proc with a 
method. The variable always wins.

> But note that I'm not all that experienced either, so I could be
> entirely wrong. But I still think that someday, it just might be
> helpful.

I can't think of any way, contrived or otherwise, that would make this 
helpful, but I'm fairly inexperienced myself. Let's say I accept your 
argument. Why not issue a warning?