From: Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@...>
Date: 2007-03-20T11:35:02+09:00
Subject: Re: Array#initialize: Better error reporting

Hi,

In message "Re: Array#initialize: Better error reporting"
    on Tue, 20 Mar 2007 11:24:17 +0900, Bertram Scharpf <lists@bertram-scharpf.de> writes:
|irb(main):002:0> a = Array.new :a, :b ; nil
|irb(main):004:0> a.length
|=> 13281

|Sorry, it's too late this night for me to create another
|login before I write a regular bug report.

It is compatibility behavior.  It will be fixed in 1.9.  And -w will
give you warning:

 % ruby -we 'a = Array.new :a, :b; p a.size'
 -e:1: warning: treating Symbol as an integer
 10473

							matz.