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Bug #10103

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Unable to refine class with CONSTANT

Added by kyledecot (Kyle Decot) over 9 years ago. Updated over 7 years ago.

Status:
Closed
Target version:
-
ruby -v:
2.1.1
[ruby-core:<unknown>]

Description

When refining a class (such as String in the following example) it is impossible to assign a constant. The constant will get attached to the module containing the refinement instead of the refined class. When inside of a refine block constants should get assigned to that class.

module Foobar
  refine String do
    FOO = "BAR"

    def foobar
      "foobar"
    end
  end
end

using Foobar

puts "".class::FOO # => uninitialized constant String::FOO (NameError)
puts "".foobar # => "foobar"

Updated by engineersmnky (Mike Hein) over 9 years ago

I would like to also mention that this impacts class_variables as well

   module Foobar
     @@baz = "boom"
     refine String do 
       @@foo = "bar"
       def foobar
         @@foo
       end
       def bazical
         @@baz
       end
     end
   end

   using Foobar

   Foobar.class_variables #=> [:@@baz, :@@foo]
   "".bazical #=> "boom"
   "".foobar #=> "bar"

The first one I understand since the block can utilize variables and methods outside of itself. The second one really confuses me as I didn't expect it to skip over String and end up in Foobar. It also does not raise any warning about warning: class variable access from toplevel. Just as I would have expected constants to raise a SyntaxError for dynamic assignment. Instance variables seem to be ignored all together from what I can see.

Updated by matz (Yukihiro Matsumoto) over 9 years ago

  • Status changed from Open to Feedback

Constants (and class variables) are not included in refinement modification. Constants still belong to outer class.
If we change this, we have to make incompatible change to constant scoping rules.
I don't think its wise.

But maybe above class variables case should be warned, probably.

Matz.

Updated by shugo (Shugo Maeda) over 7 years ago

  • Assignee set to shugo (Shugo Maeda)
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Updated by shugo (Shugo Maeda) over 7 years ago

  • Status changed from Feedback to Closed

Applied in changeset r56101.


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