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[#48773] [ruby-trunk - Bug #7269][Open] Refinement doesn't work if using locate after method — "ko1 (Koichi Sasada)" <redmine@...>

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[#48847] [ruby-trunk - Bug #7274][Open] UnboundMethods should be bindable to any object that is_a?(owner of the UnboundMethod) — "rits (First Last)" <redmine@...>

21 messages 2012/11/04

[#48854] [ruby-trunk - Bug #7276][Open] TestFile#test_utime failure — "jonforums (Jon Forums)" <redmine@...>

14 messages 2012/11/04

[#48988] [ruby-trunk - Feature #7292][Open] Enumerable#to_h — "marcandre (Marc-Andre Lafortune)" <ruby-core@...>

40 messages 2012/11/06

[#48997] [ruby-trunk - Feature #7297][Open] map_to alias for each_with_object — "nathan.f77 (Nathan Broadbent)" <nathan.f77@...>

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[#49001] [ruby-trunk - Bug #7298][Open] Behavior of Enumerator.new different between 1.9.3 and 2.0.0 — "ayumin (Ayumu AIZAWA)" <ayumu.aizawa@...>

12 messages 2012/11/06

[#49018] [ruby-trunk - Feature #7299][Open] Ruby should not completely ignore blocks. — "marcandre (Marc-Andre Lafortune)" <ruby-core@...>

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[#49044] [ruby-trunk - Bug #7304][Open] Random test failures around test_autoclose_true_closed_by_finalizer — "luislavena (Luis Lavena)" <luislavena@...>

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[#49196] [ruby-trunk - Feature #7322][Open] Add a new operator name #>< for bit-wise "exclusive or" — "alexeymuranov (Alexey Muranov)" <redmine@...>

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[#49211] [ruby-trunk - Feature #7328][Open] Move ** operator precedence under unary + and - — "boris_stitnicky (Boris Stitnicky)" <boris@...>

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[#49229] [ruby-trunk - Bug #7331][Open] Set the precedence of unary `-` equal to the precedence `-`, same for `+` — "alexeymuranov (Alexey Muranov)" <redmine@...>

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[#49354] review open pull requests on github — Zachary Scott <zachary@...>

Could we get a review on any open pull requests on github before the

12 messages 2012/11/15
[#49355] Re: review open pull requests on github — "NARUSE, Yui" <naruse@...> 2012/11/15

2012/11/15 Zachary Scott <[email protected]>:

[#49356] Re: review open pull requests on github — Zachary Scott <zachary@...> 2012/11/15

Ok, I was hoping one of the maintainers might want to.

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[#49463] [ruby-trunk - Feature #7375][Open] embedding libyaml in psych for Ruby 2.0 — "tenderlovemaking (Aaron Patterson)" <aaron@...>

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[#49494] [ruby-trunk - Feature #7375] embedding libyaml in psych for Ruby 2.0 — "vo.x (Vit Ondruch)" <v.ondruch@...> 2012/11/17

[#49467] [ruby-trunk - Feature #7377][Open] #indetical? as an alias for #equal? — "aef (Alexander E. Fischer)" <aef@...>

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[#49558] [ruby-trunk - Bug #7395][Open] Negative numbers can't be primes by definition — "zzak (Zachary Scott)" <zachary@...>

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[#49566] [ruby-trunk - Feature #7400][Open] Incorporate OpenSSL tests from JRuby. — "zzak (Zachary Scott)" <zachary@...>

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[#49770] [ruby-trunk - Feature #7414][Open] Now that const_get supports "Foo::Bar" syntax, so should const_defined?. — "robertgleeson (Robert Gleeson)" <rob@...>

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[#49950] [ruby-trunk - Feature #7427][Assigned] Update Rubygems — "mame (Yusuke Endoh)" <mame@...>

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[#50043] [ruby-trunk - Bug #7429][Open] Provide options for core collections to customize behavior — "headius (Charles Nutter)" <headius@...>

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[#50092] [ruby-trunk - Feature #7434][Open] Allow caller_locations and backtrace_locations to receive negative params — "sam.saffron (Sam Saffron)" <sam.saffron@...>

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[#50424] [ruby-trunk - Bug #7485][Open] ruby cannot build on mingw32 due to missing __sync_val_compare_and_swap — "drbrain (Eric Hodel)" <[email protected]>

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[#50429] [ruby-trunk - Feature #7487][Open] Cutting through the issues with Refinements — "trans (Thomas Sawyer)" <transfire@...>

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[ruby-core:49807] [ruby-trunk - Feature #6539] public and private for core methods

From: "fdfehujio (fdfehujio fdfehujio)" <youngmonroe634@...>
Date: 2012-11-21 12:31:05 UTC
List: ruby-core #49807
Issue #6539 has been updated by fdfehujio (fdfehujio fdfehujio).


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Feature #6539: public and private for core methods
https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/6539#change-33389

Author: marcandre (Marc-Andre Lafortune)
Status: Assigned
Priority: Normal
Assignee: nobu (Nobuyoshi Nakada)
Category: core
Target version: next minor


I feel there are inconsistencies in which methods are public and which are private.

For example:

  obj = []
  prev = obj.instance_variable_get(:@foo) # allowed
  obj.instance_variable_set(:@foo, nil)    # allowed
  # But these are almost equivalent to:
  prev = obj.remove_instance_variable(:@foo)
    # => NoMethodError: private method `remove_instance_variable' called for []:Array

Another example:

  module M
    def foo
      42
    end
  end

  M.module_function :foo # private method `module_function' called for M:Module
  M.extend M             # allowed
  M.foo # => 42

Reverse example:

  {}.method_missing :foo    # => private method `method_missing' called
  {}.respond_to_missing? :foo, false   # => allowed, why?

Which methods should be private is a different question for Ruby than for apps and libraries; the "real" private methods of Ruby are in C!
For Ruby, I feel that a method should be private if it is *not meant to be called* except by Ruby itself (callbacks, etc...), or if it's a "global" methods of Kernel that is meant to be called directly (i.e. `puts` instead of `42.puts`)

Otherwise, it should be public. This includes methods like `Module#include`.

I don't know what the rationale was to make `include` and the like private.

I feel it is now quite common to use metaprogramming, e.g. to `include` modules from outside a class. It's part of a Class' API that it can be extended and modified, so these methods should be public.

Concrete proposal:

Should be made private:
  Object and descendants
    #initialize_clone
    #initialize_dup
    #respond_to_missing?
  Rational & Complex
    #marshal_dump
    #marshal_load
  Time
    #_dump
    ._load

Note that Delegate#initialize_{clone|dup} are already private

Should be made public:

  Object
    #remove_instance_variable
  Module
    #attr
    #attr_reader
    #attr_writer
    #attr_accessor
    #remove_const
    #include
    #remove_method
    #undef_method
    #alias_method
    #public
    #protected
    #private
    #module_function
    #define_method



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