Ruby Issue Tracking System

03/19/2015

02:11 PM Ruby master Bug #10984: Hash#contain? to check whether hash contains other hash

I agree that `#include?` is a more consistent and appropriate name for this method. I would prefer to see that change... sferik (Erik Michaels-Ober)

11/16/2014

04:38 AM Ruby master Feature #10510: Remove REXML instead of patching it

I believe semantic versioning prevents doing this until Ruby 3 is released (many years from now) but I agree that thi... sferik (Erik Michaels-Ober)

02/21/2014

09:11 PM Ruby master Feature #9549 (Rejected): Improvements to Time::strptime

I opened [a pull request on GitHub](https://github.com/ruby/ruby/pull/540) a few days ago but wanted to open a parall... sferik (Erik Michaels-Ober)

11/21/2013

09:06 AM Ruby master Feature #9123: Make Numeric#nonzero? behavior consistent with Numeric#zero?

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> The opposite of "zero?" is not "nonzero?" but "notzero?". If the method's name was "notzero?", one could ca... sferik (Erik Michaels-Ober)

05:07 AM Ruby master Feature #9123: Make Numeric#nonzero? behavior consistent with Numeric#zero?

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I'm not proposing a change to the semantics of Ruby; I'm proposing a fix to an inconsistency.
The vast majori... sferik (Erik Michaels-Ober)

11/19/2013

10:32 AM Ruby master Feature #9123: Make Numeric#nonzero? behavior consistent with Numeric#zero?

I did not remove that example, I just moved it under the documentation for Numeric#nonzero. sferik (Erik Michaels-Ober)

03:31 AM Ruby master Feature #9123: Make Numeric#nonzero? behavior consistent with Numeric#zero?

How would you feel if Numeric#zero? returned self (0) or nil?
Your description of the semantics of the question mark... sferik (Erik Michaels-Ober)

03:12 AM Ruby master Feature #9123 (Assigned): Make Numeric#nonzero? behavior consistent with Numeric#zero?

Numeric#zero? returns true or false, while Numeric#nonzero? returns self or nil.
I've written a patch that fixes t... sferik (Erik Michaels-Ober)

12/04/2012

04:35 PM Ruby master Feature #7414: Now that const_get supports "Foo::Bar" syntax, so should const_defined?.

I also noticed this inconsistency. It seems very odd to have different behavior for Module#const_get and Module#const... sferik (Erik Michaels-Ober)

05/12/2011

03:13 AM Ruby master Bug #4651: Bus Error using continuation on x86_64-darwin11.0.0 (Lion)

Just to be clear, this is still an issue on Ruby 1.9.2-head but it's fixed in trunk (1.9.3). Maybe I'm using the wron... sferik (Erik Michaels-Ober)