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Bug #11980

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External methods are appearing as instance methods for String

Added by danielpclark (Daniel P. Clark) about 8 years ago. Updated almost 5 years ago.

Status:
Closed
Assignee:
-
Target version:
-
[ruby-core:72820]

Description

It appears we're having methods creep into the String scope.

"".methods.count
# => 170

defined? "".a
# => nil

def a
 "foo"
end

"".methods.count
# => 171

defined? "".a
# => "method"

"bar".a
# => "foo"

Updated by danielpclark (Daniel P. Clark) about 8 years ago

It's not just String.

Array.instance_method(:a).owner
# => Object

Updated by danielpclark (Daniel P. Clark) about 8 years ago

Those results were from IRB. Here's my results from a Ruby script.

"test_scope_creep.rb"

puts "".methods.count
puts defined? "".a
def a
  "foo"
end
puts "".methods.count
puts defined? "".a
puts String.private_method_defined? :a
puts String.instance_method(:a).owner
puts "".send :a
puts Array.private_method_defined? :a
puts Array.instance_method(:a).owner
puts [].send :a

Output:

170

170

true
Object
foo
true
Object
foo

It appears they are defined as private methods when run via ruby and in irb they run like they're not private methods.

Updated by codetodya (Sumit Mahamuni) about 8 years ago

It's not really a bug.

When you define following method. It is added on Object class. And any class which inherits from Object class will have following method.

You can try calling following method on any class which inherits Object class, you should get same output.

def a
  "foo"
end
Actions #4

Updated by jeremyevans0 (Jeremy Evans) almost 5 years ago

  • Status changed from Open to Closed
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