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Backport #1979

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parser confused by local variable assignment

Added by coatl (caleb clausen) over 14 years ago. Updated over 4 years ago.


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I posted this before as a followup to bug #1801. Since there was no response and it seems to have been fixed independently of #1801 in the distant past, I'm filing it as a separate bug.

I can't decide if this is a different manifestation of bug #1801 or just a highly similar bug, maybe someone can enlighten me:

p = p m %(2)

I think the %(2) should be treated as a string, since it is in all other cases I know of (unless m is an lvar, which obviously it isn't here). However, it gets parsed as an operator and a parenthesized numeric literal.

In this variation of the expression, %(2) is a string, as I would expect:

p m %(2)

Is this the same as #1801?

This expression works as I expected for versions 1.4.0 thru 1.7.1. All versions after 1.7.1 don't work the way I expect. In versions before 1.4.0 it causes a syntax error. Jruby has identical behavior as recent mri rubies. In rubinius, it causes a stack dump.

Something interesting happened around about 1.7.1.
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Actions #1

Updated by brixen (Brian Shirai) over 14 years ago

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Hi,

On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 6:39 PM, caleb clausen wrote:

Bug #1979: parser confused by local variable assignment
http://redmine.ruby-lang.org/issues/show/1979

Author: caleb clausen
Status: Open, Priority: Normal
ruby -v: 1.8 and up

I posted this before as a followup to bug #1801. Since there was no response and it seems to have been fixed independently of #1801 in the distant past, I'm filing it as a separate bug.

I can't decide if this is a different manifestation of bug #1801 or just a highly similar bug, maybe someone can enlighten me:

 p = p m %(2)

I think the %(2) should be treated as a string, since it is in all other cases I know of (unless m is an lvar, which obviously it isn't here). However, it gets parsed as an operator and a parenthesized numeric literal.

In this variation of the expression, %(2) is a string, as I would expect:

 p m %(2)

Is this the same as #1801?

This expression works as I expected for versions 1.4.0 thru 1.7.1. All versions after 1.7.1 don't work the way I expect. In versions before 1.4.0 it causes a syntax error. Jruby has identical behavior as recent mri rubies. In rubinius, it causes a stack dump.

Could you elaborate on what you get with Rubinius? I get 'nil' for the
first example (assuming I'm typing this in right) and NoMethodError
for 'm' in the second. Could you give a screen dump or something?

Thanks,
Brian

Something interesting happened around about 1.7.1.


http://redmine.ruby-lang.org

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Actions #2

Updated by naruse (Yui NARUSE) over 14 years ago

  • Category set to core
  • Status changed from Open to Assigned
  • Assignee set to matz (Yukihiro Matsumoto)

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Actions #3

Updated by jeremyevans0 (Jeremy Evans) over 4 years ago

  • Tracker changed from Bug to Backport
  • Project changed from Ruby 1.8 to Backport187
  • Description updated (diff)
  • Status changed from Assigned to Closed
  • ruby -v deleted (1.8 and up)
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