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Feature Proposal: Proc#to_lambda

Added by schneems (Richard Schneeman) almost 10 years ago. Updated about 6 years ago.

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[ruby-core:62175]

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Currently different block objects such as a lambda can be converted into to a proc: http://www.ruby-doc.org/core-1.9.3/Proc.html#method-i-to_proc

However you cannot turn a Proc instance into a lambda. Since a Proc and lambda behave differently sometimes you may want to convert between the two functionalities. One example is a return inside of the block. In a lambda the return keyword exits the closure, in a Proc the return keyword raises an exception.

There is currently no implementation standard way to convert a Proc to a lambda. I made a gem that makes this easier: https://github.com/schneems/proc_to_lambda but it seems overkill.

If MRI introduces a to_lambda method on Proc then we can standardize on an interface for this behavior. This question on stack overflow has been upvoted many times: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2946603/ruby-convert-proc-to-lambda. I think other Ruby developers would like this behavior supported by Ruby core.


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Related to Ruby master - Feature #15973: Let Kernel#lambda always return a lambdaClosedmatz (Yukihiro Matsumoto)Actions
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