Bug #8055: Method with the same name as accessor causes stack level too deep error

• Status: Rejected
• Assignee: -
• Target version: -
• ruby -v: 1.9.3

[firedev (Nick O)]

To me this looks like a bug. It causes stack level too deep in all versions of Ruby (1.9 and 2.0 at least).

class Test
attr_accessor :uuid
def uuid
self.uuid ||=1
end
end

Test.new.uuid
SystemStackError: stack level too deep
from /Users/pain/.rbenv/versions/1.9.3-p374/lib/ruby/1.9.1/irb/workspace.rb:80
Maybe IRB bug!

[duerst (Martin Dürst)]

• Status changed from Open to Rejected

An accessor is just a method. If you then use def to define a method with the same name, the accessor gets overwritten. You end up with a recursive method, which will blow up the stack. You can do that even quicker:

def a
a
end

a
SystemStackError: stack level too deep