Strange Behavior with RegionPlot

Question

Consider the following code.

RegionPlot[Print[{x, y}], {x, -2, 2}, {y, -2, 2}, PlotPoints -> 2]

{-1.996,-1.996}
{Region`Private`RegionVar[1],Region`Private`RegionVar[2]}
{-2.,-2.}
{2.,-2.}
{-2.,2.}
{2.,2.}

My question is: what is RegionPlot doing to create the first two lines of output? I do not understand why the first sample point is {-1.996, -1.996} and why the second sample point is {Region`Private`RegionVar[1],Region`Private`RegionVar[2]}.

I am running this in Mathematica 9. I do not recall this happening in an earlier version.

Edit: I changed the code above to give a better minimal working example. I leave below the code I first gave along with its truncated output.

myFunc[pt_] := Module[ {bool},
  bool = Sin[ pt[[1]] ] > 0;
  Print[pt, bool];
  If[ bool, Return[True], Return[False] ];
];

RegionPlot[myFunc[ {x, y} ], {x, -2, 2}, {y, -2, 2}, PlotPoints -> 2]

{-1.996,-1.996}False

{Region`Private`RegionVar[1],Region`Private`RegionVar[2]}Sin[Region`Private`RegionVar[1]]>0

{-2.,-2.}False

{2.,-2.}True

Answer 1

According to a representative at Wolfram Research

This behavior doesn't appear to be documented, but also doesn't appear to be a bug of any kind. I apologize, we have no information about this aspect of the internal workings of RegionPlot.

Answer 2

This still happens in Mathematica 10.4, and RegionPlot can fail to produce a plot, with the message Throw::nocatch: "Uncaught Throw[$Failed] returned to top level.".

As a temporary fix one can use NumericQ to evaluate the predicate function only when RegionPlot sends genuine numeric data:

myFunc[pt_] := Module[{bool},
    If[! NumericQ[pt[[1]]], Return[False]];    <-----
    bool = Sin[pt[[1]]] > 0;
    Print[pt,bool];
    If[bool, Return[True], Return[False]];
];

This is not ideal, as the evaluation result can be incorrect in one point (corresponding to the second call of the predicate function by RegionPlot) but at least RegionPlot will output a graph and it worked for me.