From: Joel VanderWerf <vjoel@...>
Date: 2002-11-17T11:14:24+09:00
Subject: Re: Proc#binding ?

Phil Tomson wrote:

> Hmmm....  actually even in 1.7.3 Proc#binding seems to be a private 
> method:
> 
> irb(main):001:0> a = proc { i = 5; puts i; }
> #<Proc:0x401fb380>
> irb(main):002:0> a.binding
> NameError: private method `binding' called for #<Proc:0x401fb380>
>         from (irb):2
> 
> but it looks like your get_binding method definition will work.
> 
> Phil

Must have changed recently...

irb(main):001:0> a = proc { i = 5; puts i; }
#<Proc:0x401f4390@(irb):1>
irb(main):002:0> a.binding
#<Binding:0x401f07b8>
irb(main):003:0> RUBY_VERSION
"1.7.3"
irb(main):004:0> RUBY_RELEASE_DATE
"2002-10-30"


Something else I observe here is that Proc#inspect seems to be telling 
us what line (of irb input) the proc was defined on. I wonder what other 
information is stored in Procs nowadays...