[#50466] [ruby-trunk - Bug #7492][Open] Segmentation fault at DL::TestDL#test_call_double on x64 Windows 8 — "phasis68 (Heesob Park)" <phasis@...>

23 messages 2012/12/02

[#50558] [ruby-trunk - Feature #7511][Open] short-circuiting logical implication operator — "rits (First Last)" <redmine@...>

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[#50575] [ruby-trunk - Feature #7517][Open] Fixnum::MIN,MAX — "matz (Yukihiro Matsumoto)" <matz@...>

20 messages 2012/12/05

[#50755] Becoming a committer — Charlie Somerville <charlie@...>

Hi ruby-core,

21 messages 2012/12/11
[#50759] Re: Becoming a committer — Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@...> 2012/12/11

Hi,

[#50784] Re: Becoming a committer — Charles Oliver Nutter <headius@...> 2012/12/11

It's really this easy? If so, I'll send over my public key today :)

[#50795] Re: Becoming a committer — Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@...> 2012/12/11

Hi,

[#50806] [ruby-trunk - Feature #7548][Open] Load and Require Callbacks — "trans (Thomas Sawyer)" <transfire@...>

12 messages 2012/12/12

[#50810] [ruby-trunk - Feature #7549][Open] A Ruby Design Process — "brixen (Brian Ford)" <brixen@...>

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[#50867] [ruby-trunk - Bug #7556][Assigned] test error on refinement — "usa (Usaku NAKAMURA)" <usa@...>

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[#50900] [ruby-trunk - Bug #7564][Open] r38175 introduces incompatibility — "tenderlovemaking (Aaron Patterson)" <aaron@...>

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[#50951] [ruby-trunk - Bug #7584][Open] Ruby hangs when shutting down an ssl connection in gc finalization — "bpot (Bob Potter)" <bobby.potter@...>

12 messages 2012/12/17

[#51076] [ruby-trunk - Feature #7604][Open] Make === comparison operator ability to delegate comparison to an argument — "prijutme4ty (Ilya Vorontsov)" <prijutme4ty@...>

12 messages 2012/12/22

[ruby-core:50596] [ruby-trunk - Bug #7522][Open] Non-core "Type()" Kernel methods return new objects

From: "jballanc (Joshua Ballanco)" <jballanc@...>
Date: 2012-12-05 21:17:51 UTC
List: ruby-core #50596
Issue #7522 has been reported by jballanc (Joshua Ballanco).

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Bug #7522: Non-core "Type()" Kernel methods return new objects
https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/7522

Author: jballanc (Joshua Ballanco)
Status: Open
Priority: Normal
Assignee: 
Category: 
Target version: 
ruby -v: 2.0.0-preview1


The methods Array(), String(), Float(), Integer(), Hash(), and Rational() all return their argument when the argument is already an instance of the type in question. For example:

a = []
a.equal? Array(a) #=> true

However, the similar methods Pathname(), BigDecimal(), and Complex() do not do this:

p = Pathname.new('/tmp')
p.equal? Pathname(p) #=> false

I had the impression that the "Type()" methods were intended as "safe" coercion methods. That is, if no type conversion is required, then the system is left unchanged (and no new objects are created). The attached patch fixes the three methods mentioned above to adhere to this same invariant.


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