Bug #10280: Regression while evaluating default argments of a method

• Status: Rejected
• Assignee: -
• Target version: -
• ruby -v: ruby 2.2.0preview1 (2014-09-17 trunk 47616) [x86_64-darwin13]
• Backport: 2.0.0: UNKNOWN, 2.1: UNKNOWN

[iffyuva (Yuva Kumar)]

class DefArg
  def calc(str, val=val)
    p val
  end
 
  def val
    10
  end
end
 
# ruby-2.2.0-preview1 => nil
# ruby-2.1.3          => 10
DefArg.new.calc("hello")

im not sure what ruby spec says. but it looks like this program should print 10 in both the cases.

[nobu (Nobuyoshi Nakada)]

• Is duplicate of Bug #9593: Keyword arguments default argument assignment behaviour not consistent with optional argument added

[nobu (Nobuyoshi Nakada)]

• Description updated (diff)
• Status changed from Open to Rejected

[hsbt (Hiroshi SHIBATA)]

• Related to Bug #10314: Default argument lookup fails in Ruby 2.2 for circular shadowed variable names added