[Rake-devel] minor issue with task invoke

[Jim Weirich]

On Nov 5, 2008, at 1:35 AM, Ittay Dror wrote:

> in Task#execute, this code:
>
> @actions.each do |act|
>       case act.arity
>       when 1
>
>         act.call(self)
>       else
>         act.call(self, args)
>       end
>
>
> means that if i define a task:
>
> task 'foo' {puts 'blah'}
>
>
> then the task is called with arguments, when, for consistency it  
> should be called with none.

Lambdas still support assignment semantics when passing arguments.   
This means that if I pass two arguments (t and args) to a lambda with  
only a single formal arg, they will be grouped together in an array.   
This is not the effect I wanted.  I only wanted t to be passed in in  
that case.

In all other cases, it is safe to pass in both arguments.

If you think it is necessary to pass no args, can you write a unit  
test demonstrating that need?

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-- Jim Weirich
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