Bug #16607: retried require does not raise Exception even if a library has SyntaxError

• Status: Closed
• Assignee: -
• Target version: -
• ruby -v: ruby 2.7.0p0 (2019-12-25 revision 647ee6f091) [x86_64-linux]
• Backport: 2.5: DONTNEED, 2.6: DONTNEED, 2.7: DONE

[gotoken (Kentaro Goto)]

From shell:

% echo "class C" > c.rb
% ruby -e 'begin p require "./c" ; rescue SyntaxError; end; p require "./c"; C'

expected result: SyntaxError
2.7 and current master output:

false
Traceback (most recent call last):
-e:1:in `<main>': uninitialized constant C (NameError)

[nobu (Nobuyoshi Nakada)]

• Backport changed from 2.5: UNKNOWN, 2.6: UNKNOWN, 2.7: UNKNOWN to 2.5: DONTNEED, 2.6: DONTNEED, 2.7: REQUIRED

[nobu (Nobuyoshi Nakada)]

• Status changed from Open to Closed

Applied in changeset git|7d6903dc476f982e7b432adbeef3a3d9372a309f.

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Add the loaded feature after no exception raised

Retrying after rescued require should try to load the same
library again. [Bug #16607]

[naruse (Yui NARUSE)]

• Backport changed from 2.5: DONTNEED, 2.6: DONTNEED, 2.7: REQUIRED to 2.5: DONTNEED, 2.6: DONTNEED, 2.7: DONE

ruby_2_7 c7e0ce67430b5e312eb626a2c2f4b6a810b3b68b.