Bug #6107: Documentation Abbrev (stdlib) confusing

• Status: Closed
• Assignee: drbrain (Eric Hodel)
• Target version: -
• ruby -v: ruby 1.9.3p0 (2011-10-30 revision 33570) [i686-linux] ruby 1.9.3p0 (2011-10-30 revision 33570) [i686-linux]

[steenslag (siep korteling)]

The example in the documentation suggests Abbrev::abrev returns an Array. It does return a hash; the array is the result of the #sort method.

[drbrain (Eric Hodel)]

• Assignee set to drbrain (Eric Hodel)
• Priority changed from 3 to Normal

[zmack (Andrei Bocan)]

• File 0001-Fix-documentation-for-Abbrev-abbrev.patch added

Patch to fix this on trunk.

[zmack (Andrei Bocan)]

• File 0001-Fix-documentation-for-Abbrev-abbrev.patch 0001-Fix-documentation-for-Abbrev-abbrev.patch added

Previous patch is bunk, please disregard.

Attached patch removes the sort from the example and updates the example output with the actual hash.

[shyouhei (Shyouhei Urabe)]

• Status changed from Open to Assigned

[drbrain (Eric Hodel)]

• File deleted (0001-Fix-documentation-for-Abbrev-abbrev.patch)

[drbrain (Eric Hodel)]

• Status changed from Assigned to Closed
• % Done changed from 0 to 100

This issue was solved with changeset r35290.
siep, thank you for reporting this issue.
Your contribution to Ruby is greatly appreciated.
May Ruby be with you.

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• lib/abbrev.rb: Clarified that Abbrev.abbrev returns a Hash instead
  of an Array. Patch by Andrei Bocan. [ruby-trunk - Bug #6107]