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Bug #15956

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`{*nil}` causes confusing error message

Added by Tietew (Toru Iwase) over 5 years ago. Updated about 5 years ago.

Status:
Closed
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Target version:
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ruby -v:
ruby 2.7.0dev (2019-06-24T15:19:49Z trunk e09afd15b7) [x86_64-linux]
[ruby-core:93353]

Description

$ ruby -e 'p({*nil})'
-e:1: syntax error, unexpected *, expecting '}'
p({*nil})
-e:1: Can't assign to nil
p({*nil})

First syntax error is intended.
But second error message Can't assign to nil is confusing.

This happens with nil, true, false and self.
Other identifiers including keywords don't.


Related issues 1 (0 open1 closed)

Is duplicate of Ruby master - Bug #15078: Hash splat of empty hash should not create a positional argument.Closedmatz (Yukihiro Matsumoto)Actions
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Updated by nobu (Nobuyoshi Nakada) over 5 years ago

  • Is duplicate of Bug #15078: Hash splat of empty hash should not create a positional argument. added
Actions #2

Updated by jeremyevans0 (Jeremy Evans) about 5 years ago

  • Status changed from Open to Closed

Fixed by #14183:

$ ruby -e 'def foo(*args); p args; end; foo(**{}); foo(**Hash.new) '
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