From: "Ara.T.Howard" <ahoward@...>
Date: 2004-04-04T04:24:22+09:00
Subject: Re: Learning Ruby, was a C geek...

On Sun, 4 Apr 2004, Kent S. wrote:

> Sure. Here's what I've got by reading ruby.core:
> 
> 1. lambda{} is the same thing as Proc.new{}, except lambda has an arity 
> checker plus it rescues 'call' method for LocalJumpError.
> 
> 2. proc{} is deprecated in favor of lambda{}.
> 
> 3. Proc.new without an associated block is defined like this:
> 
>     def method(&block)
>     end
> 
>     equals
> 
>     def method
>       block = Proc.new
>     end
> 
>     and as I know, matz wants to deprecated this Proc.new usage as well.
> 
> Cheers,
> Kent.

very cool - good to know.

-a
> 
> On Apr 3, 2004, at 1:24 PM, Ara.T.Howard wrote:
> 
> > On Sun, 4 Apr 2004, Kent S. wrote:
> >
> >> lambda is almost the same thing as Proc.new. Consider this:
> >
> > can you elaborate for those of us who are seeing double after a really 
> > long
> > week?
> 
> 
> 
> 

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