From: Kent Dahl <kentda@...>
Date: 2003-06-25T01:30:31+09:00
Subject: Re: Block Scope Statement in the Pickaxe

Robert Klemme wrote:
> 
> "Kent Dahl" <kentda@stud.ntnu.no> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
> > Point taken. For brevity I think I would prefer simply:
> >  in `instance_eval': wrong argument type Proc (expected String or
> > associated block)
> >
> > The 'no args' bits feels like line noise reading it.
> 
> Sounds good.  Now that that's settled, who's gonna put it into source
> code? :-)

As I went looking into the source, I noticed that
the behaviour has changed from 1.6.8 to 1.8.0-pre3:

[kentda@v052a ruby-1.8.0]$ ./ruby -v
ruby 1.8.0 (2003-06-23) [i686-linux]
[kentda@v052a ruby-1.8.0]$ ./ruby -e "instance_eval proc { }"
-e:1:in `instance_eval': cannot convert Proc into String (TypeError)
        from -e:1

The reason appears to be due to a more generic approach where any object
pretending to be a string (i.e. implements to_str) is acceptable. 

I can't see any elegant way to do it. Either:
1) Check if it is a Proc before the to_str stuff. But what if it the
Proc has to_str implemented?
2) Catch the exception and augment the error message. 

Hmm, maybe it is too much hand-holding to do so. I'm leaning back
towards the "I was sleepy/an idiot at the time" position.

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