diff --git a/proc.c b/proc.c
index 9c6534bd46..27724118be 100644
--- a/proc.c
+++ b/proc.c
@@ -777,45 +777,42 @@ rb_block_lambda(void)
/* CHECKME: are the argument checking semantics correct? */
/*
- * Document-method: call
* Document-method: []
+ * Document-method: call
* Document-method: yield
*
* call-seq:
* prc.call(params,...) -> obj
* prc[params,...] -> obj
* prc.(params,...) -> obj
+ * prc.yield(params,...) -> obj
*
* Invokes the block, setting the block's parameters to the values in
* params using something close to method calling semantics.
- * Generates a warning if multiple values are passed to a proc that
- * expects just one (previously this silently converted the parameters
- * to an array). Note that prc.()
invokes
- * prc.call()
with the parameters given. It's a syntax sugar to
- * hide "call".
+ * Returns the value of the last expression evaluated in the block.
*
- * Returns the value of the last expression evaluated in the block. See
- * also Proc#yield.
+ * a_proc = Proc.new {|scalar, *values| values.map {|value| value*scalar } }
+ * a_proc.call(9, 1, 2, 3) #=> [9, 18, 27]
+ * a_proc[9, 1, 2, 3] #=> [9, 18, 27]
+ * a_proc.(9, 1, 2, 3) #=> [9, 18, 27]
+ * a_proc.yield(9, 1, 2, 3) #=> [9, 18, 27]
*
- * a_proc = Proc.new { |scalar, *values| values.collect { |value| value*scalar } }
- * a_proc.call(9, 1, 2, 3) #=> [9, 18, 27]
- * a_proc[9, 1, 2, 3] #=> [9, 18, 27]
- * a_proc.(9, 1, 2, 3) #=> [9, 18, 27]
+ * Note that prc.()
invokes prc.call()
with
+ * the parameters given. It's syntactic sugar to hide "call".
*
* For procs created using lambda
or ->()
an error
- * is generated if the wrong number of parameters are passed to a Proc with
- * multiple parameters. For procs created using Proc.new
or
- * Kernel.proc
, extra parameters are silently discarded.
+ * is generated if the wrong number of parameters are passed to the proc.
+ * For procs created using Proc.new
or Kernel.proc
,
+ * extra parameters are silently discarded and missing parameters are
+ * set to +nil+.
*
- * a_proc = lambda {|a,b| a}
- * a_proc.call(1,2,3)
+ * a_proc = proc {|a,b| [a,b] }
+ * a_proc.call(1) #=> [1, nil]
*
- * produces:
- *
- * prog.rb:4:in `block in ': wrong number of arguments (given 3, expected 2) (ArgumentError)
- * from prog.rb:5:in `call'
- * from prog.rb:5:in `'
+ * a_proc = lambda {|a,b| [a,b] }
+ * a_proc.call(1) # ArgumentError: wrong number of arguments (given 1, expected 2)
*
+ * See also Proc#lambda?.
*/
#if 0
static VALUE