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Feature #15076

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Struct to raise error when keyword arguments used but not enabled

Added by macdevign (Macdevign mac) over 5 years ago. Updated over 5 years ago.

Status:
Rejected
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Target version:
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[ruby-core:88855]

Description

When Struct is used to instantiate object with keyword arguments disabled and yet if instantiated using keyword arguments, the instance fields will be set incorrectly.

Will it be clearer if a error is raised instead rather than assigning data incorrectly ? This is helpful and save time in nailing such issue in a large code base when there is mixture of Struct define with and without keyword arguments.

For example,

Info = Struct.new(:name, :country)  # without keyword argument enabled
c = Info.new(name: "myname", country: "Japan") # Instantiate with keywords

The c.name contains hash, and c.country is nil


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Related to Ruby master - Feature #11925: Struct construction with kwargsClosedActions
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Updated by nobu (Nobuyoshi Nakada) over 5 years ago

Updated by nobu (Nobuyoshi Nakada) over 5 years ago

  • Status changed from Open to Rejected
Info = Struct.new(:name, :country, keyword_init: true)
c = Info.new(name: "myname", country: "Japan")
p c #=> #<struct Info name="myname", country="Japan">

Updated by k0kubun (Takashi Kokubun) over 5 years ago

Will it be clearer if a error is raised instead rather than assigning data incorrectly ?

With the current keyword arguments implementation (see also: [Feature #14183]), we can't distinguish the mistaken situation with one that we really wanted to initialize only the first argument with Symbol-key Hash. So that would be breaking change which we basically shouldn't introduce.

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