From: Robert Dober <robert.dober@...>
Date: 2009-07-05T20:56:33+09:00
Subject: Re: to_proc and Proc/block conversion with &

On 7/5/09, David A. Black <dblack@rubypal.com> wrote:
> Yes; the & means: take what's to the right of it (which can be any
> expression), evaluate it, call to_proc on the resulting object, and
> use the return value of to_proc to play the code block role.
>
> In the case of a lambda, to_proc just returns the receiver. So you can
> do:
>
>    array.map &lambda {|x| x * 10 }
It might be interesting to note that in Ruby1.9 the to_proc is not
called on Proc objects, I wonder what happened in 1.8

536/37 > ruby -rprofile -e '[1].map &Proc::new{|x| x+1}'
  %   cumulative   self              self     total
 time   seconds   seconds    calls  ms/call  ms/call  name
  0.00     0.00      0.00        1     0.00     0.00  BasicObject#initialize
  0.00     0.00      0.00        1     0.00     0.00  Proc#new
  0.00     0.00      0.00        1     0.00     0.00  Fixnum#+
  0.00     0.00      0.00        1     0.00     0.00  Array#map
  0.00     0.01      0.00        1     0.00    10.00  #toplevel

537/38 > ruby -rprofile -e '[1].map &lambda{|x| x+1}'
  %   cumulative   self              self     total
 time   seconds   seconds    calls  ms/call  ms/call  name
  0.00     0.00      0.00        1     0.00     0.00  Kernel.lambda
  0.00     0.00      0.00        1     0.00     0.00  Fixnum#+
  0.00     0.00      0.00        1     0.00     0.00  Array#map
  0.00     0.01      0.00        1     0.00    10.00  #toplevel

  ruby -rprofile -e '[1].map(&:succ)'
  %   cumulative   self              self     total
 time   seconds   seconds    calls  ms/call  ms/call  name
  0.00     0.00      0.00        1     0.00     0.00  Kernel.proc
>0.00     0.00      0.00        1     0.00     0.00  Symbol#to_proc<
  0.00     0.00      0.00        1     0.00     0.00  Fixnum#succ
  0.00     0.00      0.00        1     0.00     0.00  Array#map
  0.00     0.01      0.00        1     0.00    10.00  #toplevel


Cheers
Robert
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