Bug #2419: super call may use wrong receiver object

• Status: Closed
• Assignee: nobu (Nobuyoshi Nakada)
• Target version: -
• ruby -v: ruby 1.8.6 (2009-03-31 patchlevel 368) [i386-mingw32]

[tmat (Tomas Matousek)]

=begin
The code below prints:
C
main
Object::m

which means that the super calls the instance method B#m on a receiver that is not an instance of B. It's not what makes the super call to pick the main object as a receiver in this case. I would expect it to use the "self" object that the block captures, i.e. the class object C, and thus an exception "no superclass method `m' (NoMethodError)" should be raised.

class B
def m
p self
puts self.class.to_s + '::m'
end
end

class C < B
q = Proc.new do
p self
super()
end

mq = define_method :m, &q

mq.call
end

BTW: The behavior is even worse in Ruby 1.9:
ruby 1.9.1p129 (2009-05-12 revision 23412) [i386-mswin32]
C
a.rb:11:in ==': wrong number of arguments(0 for 1) (ArgumentError) from a.rb:11:in block in class:C'
from a.rb:16:in call' from a.rb:16:in class:C'
from a.rb:8:in `'
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[ujihisa (Tatsuhiro Ujihisa)]

• Status changed from Open to Assigned
• Assignee set to nobu (Nobuyoshi Nakada)

=begin
FYI: In my environment, the latter result was different.

ruby 1.9.2dev (2009-11-30 trunk 25961) [i386-darwin9.8.0]
C
/var/folders/Dz/Dz5WpFSZGUaFLA8jp8kT5E+++TM/-Tmp-/v408625/85:12:in block in <class:C>': super: no superclass method remove_const' for C:Class (NoMethodError)
from /var/folders/Dz/Dz5WpFSZGUaFLA8jp8kT5E+++TM/-Tmp-/v408625/85:17:in call' from /var/folders/Dz/Dz5WpFSZGUaFLA8jp8kT5E+++TM/-Tmp-/v408625/85:17:in class:C'
from /var/folders/Dz/Dz5WpFSZGUaFLA8jp8kT5E+++TM/-Tmp-/v408625/85:9:in `'

(Please ignore the difference of line numbers)
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[nobu (Nobuyoshi Nakada)]

• Status changed from Assigned to Closed
• % Done changed from 0 to 100

=begin
This issue was solved with changeset r25975.
Tomas, thank you for reporting this issue.
Your contribution to Ruby is greatly appreciated.
May Ruby be with you.

=end

[nobu (Nobuyoshi Nakada)]

• Status changed from Closed to Open

=begin

=end

[nobu (Nobuyoshi Nakada)]

• Status changed from Open to Closed

=begin
This issue was solved with changeset r26536.
Tomas, thank you for reporting this issue.
Your contribution to Ruby is greatly appreciated.
May Ruby be with you.

=end