Bug #19681
Updated by Eregon (Benoit Daloze) about 1 year ago
Reported to me by @fxn ```ruby m = Module.new class m::C; end p m::C.name # => "#<Module:0x000000010789fbe0>::C" m::D = m::C p m::D.name # => "#<Module:0x000000010789fbe0>::C" M = m p M::C.name # => "M::D" "#<M::D" ``` Expected behavior: ```ruby p M::C.name # => "M::C" "#<M::C" ``` ### Reason When the parent is assigned its permanent classpath, we iterate over its `const_table` to recursively give a permanent name to all the constant it owns. However, `const_table` is an `id_table` so it doesn't retain the insertion order, which means that if the constant was aliased, we can no longer distinguish between the original name and its aliases, and whichever comes first in the `const_table` will be used as the permanent name. ### Potential solution I have a tentative fix for it in https://github.com/ruby/ruby/pull/7829. Instead of relying on the `const_table` key, it extract the original name from the temporary classpath. It does feel a bit wrong to do a string search in such a place, but it does work.