Bug #18680: The documentation for File::Stat#ctime (for example) says: stat.ctime -> aTime

• Status: Closed
• Assignee: -
• Target version: -
• ruby -v: 3.1.1 but it is in the latest git repo
• Backport: 2.6: UNKNOWN, 2.7: UNKNOWN, 3.0: UNKNOWN, 3.1: UNKNOWN

[pedz (Perry Smith)]

I think it returns Time (not aTime). This is true for three of the four "time" methods.

I would not mind making a pull request if this would be helpful.

[mame (Yusuke Endoh)]

I guess that "aTime" means "a Time" or "an instance of Time". There is no strict rule for writing rdoc AFAIK, but I don't think it is very common to write a class constant name to represent a return instance type. I wonder if -> time is good.

[pedz (Perry Smith)]

Yea. The #atime method has "-> time" ... whatever is decided, the four methods: #atime, #ctime, #mtime, and #birthtime should all have the same doc.

[nobu (Nobuyoshi Nakada)]

• Status changed from Open to Closed

Applied in changeset git|b0666d64176457786c854c12c79f7beae392bee0.

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[DOC] Use consistent terms [Bug #18680]