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Bug #17034

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Unexpected behavior in #max for beginless range

Added by citizen428 (Michael Kohl) over 3 years ago. Updated over 3 years ago.

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Target version:
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ruby -v:
2.7.1p83 (2020-03-31 revision a0c7c23c9c) [x86_64-darwin19]
[ruby-core:99198]

Description

When calling max on a beginless range, a non-intuitive error gets raised:

r = ..9
r.max
# ArgumentError: comparison of NilClass with 9 failed

There's a check for NIL_P(RANGE_BEG(range)) but it's inside another check which is false for the example case above:

if (rb_block_given_p() || (EXCL(range) && !nm) || argc) {
        if (NIL_P(RANGE_BEG(range))) {
            rb_raise(rb_eRangeError, "cannot get the maximum of beginless range with custom comparison method");
        }
        return rb_call_super(argc, argv);
    }

The first part of the condition is false since there is no block, and even though I'm not sure what EXCL does the second part of the condition will be false due to !nm (nm will be true because of FIXNUM_P(e)). So I think the error gets raised here:

int c = OPTIMIZED_CMP(b, e, cmp_opt);

I think this is not ideal. Possible solutions:

  1. Return e (RANGE_END(range) for beginless ranges or
  2. return a RangeError with a message like "cannot get the maximum of beginless range" (similar to .min).

Happy to provide a patch if people want this changed and can agree on what the new behavior should be.


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range-max-beginless.patch (1.26 KB) range-max-beginless.patch citizen428 (Michael Kohl), 07/17/2020 04:25 PM
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