You are studiously missing the point and spamming irrelevant details. Yes, there's a Python "proxy" in your docs but it is syntactically transparent. Proc's pro

You are studiously missing the point and spamming irrelevant details. Yes, there's a Python "proxy" in your docs but it is syntactically transparent. Proc's proxy is not transparent. me: > If it's a callable then it can be called with parens The docs: > These are the types to which the function call operation (see section Calls) can be applied: True of Python instance method objects. False of Ruby Methods and Procs. Therefore Python has first-class methods, and Ruby does not have first-class functions nor first-class methods. End of discussion.