Bug #20487: 1..nil is giving range from 1 to inifinity in ruby greater than 2.6

• Status: Rejected
• Assignee: -
• Target version: -
• ruby -v: 3.2.0
• Backport: 3.1: UNKNOWN, 3.2: UNKNOWN, 3.3: UNKNOWN

[akshay_kakade (Akshay Kakade)]

we consider nil as undefined value, value that is not present, we consider nil as falsey value as well, when we do nil.to_i it gives us zero..then with this rational 1..nil shouldn't give the range 1 to infinity, either we should make it as invalid or it should be converted to 1..0

script:

(1..nil).each {|n| puts n }

output
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
.
.
.
.
infinity

[jeremyevans0 (Jeremy Evans)]

• Status changed from Open to Rejected

This is expected behavior. nil is the implicit end of an endless range:

(1..) == (1..nil)
# => true

(1..nil)
# => 1..

(1..).end
# => nil

[mame (Yusuke Endoh)]

• Related to Feature #12912: An endless range `(1..)` added