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From: "James Coglan" <jcoglan@googlemail.com>
To: ruby-core@ruby-lang.org
Subject: [ruby-core:20424] Re: Array#to_proc
Date: Mon, 8 Dec 2008 23:08:15 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <b913ba1b0812080614u6a97aa99ld2d9cc7125a26b6b@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <A6715F58-FC1B-4967-A7B7-C0C355D3EFFD@andersground.net>

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> This might make sense for an Array of Symbols. But i've also seen use of
> this
> in other interpretations, like for chaining Arrays of procs. Other uses
> could be
> imagined.


Quite. I've seen other uses that treat the first element as a method name,
and the remaining elements as arguments to the method. There's too much
potential ambiguity in this to warrant its addition to the language.

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-12-08 14:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-12-08 12:47 [ruby-core:20418] Array#to_proc Eustáquio Rangel
2008-12-08 12:55 ` [ruby-core:20419] Array#to_proc Austin Ziegler
2008-12-08 13:21 ` [ruby-core:20421] " Florian Gilcher
2008-12-08 13:56   ` [ruby-core:20423] " Eustáquio Rangel
2008-12-08 14:08   ` James Coglan [this message]
2008-12-08 17:24   ` [ruby-core:20430] " Nobuyoshi Nakada
2008-12-08 17:51     ` [ruby-core:20433] " Mikael Høilund
2008-12-09  5:58     ` [ruby-core:20439] " Yukihiro Matsumoto

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