Bug #17271: Array#[]= puts -1 at the end-component of the endless range in its exception message

• Status: Closed
• Assignee: mrkn (Kenta Murata)
• Target version: -
• ruby -v: ruby 2.7.1p83 (2020-03-31 revision a0c7c23c9c) [x86_64-linux]
• Backport: 2.5: UNKNOWN, 2.6: UNKNOWN, 2.7: UNKNOWN

[mrkn (Kenta Murata)]

irb(main):001:0> [*0..5][-7..] = 1
Traceback (most recent call last):
        5: from /home/mrkn/.rbenv/versions/2.7/bin/irb:23:in `<main>'
        4: from /home/mrkn/.rbenv/versions/2.7/bin/irb:23:in `load'
        3: from /home/mrkn/.rbenv/versions/2.7.1/lib/ruby/gems/2.7.0/gems/irb-1.2.4/exe/irb:11:in `<top (required)>'
        2: from (irb):1
        1: from (irb):1:in `[]='
RangeError (-7..-1 out of range)

The message should be -7.. out of range.

• Status changed from Assigned to Closed

Applied in changeset git|18cecda46e427362fa3447679e5d8a917b5d6cb6.

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range.c: Fix an exception message in rb_range_beg_len

[Bug #17271]