Bug #9996: document File.join returns a string

• Status: Closed
• Assignee: drbrain (Eric Hodel)
• Target version: -
• ruby -v: ruby 1.9.3p484 and 2.1.1
• Backport: 2.0.0: UNKNOWN, 2.1: UNKNOWN

[soodesune (Mark Lorenz)]

Duplicates: https://github.com/ruby/ruby/pull/646

The documented return from File.join is path. This patch changes it
to string to avoid confusion with Pathname#join, which returns a
Pathname object.

[soodesune (Mark Lorenz)]

I don't see a way for me to close this, but my pull request was merged as I was authoring the bug #9996.

This can be closed now.

[hsbt (Hiroshi SHIBATA)]

• Status changed from Open to Closed

Hi, Lorenz. Thanks for your patch.

I applied at r46620.