Bug #5354: Module#remove_const documentation is confusing

• Status: Closed
• Priority: Normal
• Assignee: -
• Target version: -
• ruby -v: ruby 1.9.1p378 (2010-01-10 revision 26273) [i386-mingw32]

[agrimm (Andrew Grimm)]

=begin
The documentation for Module#remove_const says:

Removes the definition of the given constant, returning that constant’s value. Predefined classes and singleton objects (such as true) cannot be removed.

Based on this documentation, someone said in http://stackoverflow.com/q/7513727/38765 that you can't do remove_const on the File constant, whereas you can.

class Object
remove_const :File
end

File # => NameError: uninitialized constant File

=end

[marcandre (Marc-Andre Lafortune)]

• Status changed from Open to Closed

Fixed by Nobu in r29519. Thanks for reporting this issue.