Ruby Issue Tracking System

11/03/2014

06:59 PM Ruby master Bug #10450: multiple assignment in conditional

Ok, yes...but if your intention with this feature request is simply to treat the multiple-assignment statement as a w... jballanc (Joshua Ballanco)

10:11 AM Ruby master Bug #10450: multiple assignment in conditional

Yes, but consider:
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if a = (b, c = false, false)
puts "a is #{a}, b is #{b}, c is #{c} and everything toget... jballanc (Joshua Ballanco)

10/30/2014

08:56 AM Ruby master Bug #10450: multiple assignment in conditional

Which of the multiple values assigned would you have used as the test for the conditional?
~~~
if (a, b = true, f... jballanc (Joshua Ballanco)

03/27/2014

05:13 PM Ruby master Feature #9453: Return symbols of defined methods for `attr` and friends

It's been almost 2 months...any chance we could get a comment on this from the core team? jballanc (Joshua Ballanco)

02/05/2014

12:27 AM Ruby master Feature #9453: Return symbols of defined methods for `attr` and friends

Tsuyoshi Sawada wrote:
> What is the point of defining a private accessor method? You can directly refer to the inst... jballanc (Joshua Ballanco)

02/03/2014

03:05 PM Ruby master Feature #9453: Return symbols of defined methods for `attr` and friends

*bump*
Would be nice if we could get this in 2.2 (if someone could update the target version, I'd appreciate it). jballanc (Joshua Ballanco)

01/26/2014

05:55 PM Ruby master Feature #9453 (Rejected): Return symbols of defined methods for `attr` and friends

With Ruby 2.1 returning a symbol from `def` and `define_method`, that leaves `attr`, `attr_reader`, `attr_writer`, an... jballanc (Joshua Ballanco)

01/22/2014

08:52 PM Ruby master Misc #9438: Implementation naming

As a point of comparison, I've often heard members of the Python community refer to the original implementation as "C... jballanc (Joshua Ballanco)

11/30/2013

07:07 PM Backport200 Backport #8872: Case statements do not honor a refinement of the '===' method

To play devil's advocate, I think the opposing question to be asked is "how would you alter the behavior of case eval... jballanc (Joshua Ballanco)

11/07/2013

05:34 PM Ruby master Feature #8839: Class and module should return the class or module that was opened

Just to throw my 2¢ in...
I think the main benefit to returning a symbol from `def` is that it enables the use of ... jballanc (Joshua Ballanco)