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Bug #16332

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`defined?` constant access on `nil` is inconsistent with normal constant access

Added by dylants (Dylan Thacker-Smith) over 4 years ago. Updated over 4 years ago.

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ruby -v:
ruby 2.7.0dev (2019-11-07T14:33:45Z master d62abc47c8) [x86_64-darwin18]
[ruby-core:95746]

Description

The fix for https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/11718 to disallow constant access through nil (e.g. nil::CONSTANT) didn't make a corresponding change for defined?.

This inconsistency can be seen with the example nil::Object, which will raise TypeError, even though defined?(nil::Object) returns "constant". I believe that defined?(nil::Object) should behave the same way as checking if a constant is defined on any other non-namespace object (e.g. defined?(1::Object)), which currently returns nil.

I've opened pull request https://github.com/ruby/ruby/pull/2657 with a fix for this issue.

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