Ruby: Proc#call vs yield

Question

What are the behavioural differences between the following two implementations in Ruby of the thrice method?

module WithYield
  def self.thrice
         


        

Answer 1

They give different error messages if you forget to pass a block:

> WithYield::thrice
LocalJumpError: no block given
        from (irb):3:in `thrice'
        from (irb):3:in `times'
        from (irb):3:in `thrice'

> WithProcCall::thrice
NoMethodError: undefined method `call' for nil:NilClass
        from (irb):9:in `thrice'
        from (irb):9:in `times'
        from (irb):9:in `thrice'

But they behave the same if you try to pass a "normal" (non-block) argument:

> WithYield::thrice(42)
ArgumentError: wrong number of arguments (1 for 0)
        from (irb):19:in `thrice'

> WithProcCall::thrice(42)
ArgumentError: wrong number of arguments (1 for 0)
        from (irb):20:in `thrice'