Bug #15481: Update NoMethodError/NameError docs

• Status: Closed
• Assignee: -
• Target version: -
• Backport: 2.4: UNKNOWN, 2.5: UNKNOWN, 2.6: UNKNOWN

[zverok (Victor Shepelev)]

• Add missing receiver: to NoMethodError.new;
• Document receiver and private argument of NoMethodError.new;
• Add explanations/examples about receiver to NameError.new;
• Reformat both methods call-sequences in a modern way (KeyError.new already looks like this, so I took the liberty)

PS: In general, I believe that all method call-sequences should be, if possible, formatted in a "modern" way:

# bad:
new([msg, *, name [, args [, priv]]]) 
# good:
new(msg=nil, name=nil, args=nil, private=false, receiver: nil)

Some exceptions are, probably, legacy (pre-keyword-argument) methods with odd call-sequences, like Kernel#system which has optional FIRST argument, and described as:

system([env, ] command, ...)

[nobu (Nobuyoshi Nakada)]

• Status changed from Open to Closed

Applied in changeset trunk|r66644.

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Update NoMethodError/NameError docs [ci skip]

[ruby-core:90796] [Bug #15481]

From: zverok (Victor Shepelev) [e-mail]