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Feature #19377

Updated by zverok (Victor Shepelev) almost 2 years ago

Justification: 
 * `#storage`, which pretends to be an instance method, is always available only on `Fiber.current`, which is [problematic to document](https://github.com/ruby/ruby/pull/6985#discussion_r1055796069), and needs special handling when `storage` is called for non-current Fiber; 
 * with class method + docs "storage of the current fiber" it all will be self-evident; 
 * Most of the time, when we declare methods that are available only in the current {something}, they are class methods. (like storage's itself interface of `Fiber::[]` and `Fiber::[]=`, or `Module.used_modules`, which is modules and refinements of the _current context_, but it is not `self.used_modules`, for example) 
 * Code like 
 ```ruby 
 Fiber.current.storage = {foo: 'bar'} 
 Fiber[:foo] 
 ``` 
 ...looks like it is two unrelated things (storage of the _current_ fiber vs some "global" key getter/setter?) 

 I don't see much discussion of this in #19078. Matz in #19078#note-22, 19078#note-22, while accepting the interface, describes it as homogenous: 
 > (1) fiber[key]/fiber[key]=val - accepted. 
 > (2) fiber.storage => hash - accepted 
 > (3) fiber.storage=hash - should be experimental 
 > ... 

 So I believe it should be either `Fiber.current[]` and `Fiber.current.storage`, or `Fiber[]`, and `Fiber.storage`. The latter is preferable to underline it is only one, related to the current fiber, interface, not "every fiber instance has one (but actually you can use only `current`'s)

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