From: "sawa (Tsuyoshi Sawada) via ruby-core" Date: 2023-04-11T06:26:17+00:00 Subject: [ruby-core:113185] [Ruby master Feature#19588] Allow Comparable#clamp(min, max) to accept nil as a specification Issue #19588 has been updated by sawa (Tsuyoshi Sawada). I think it is a good idea. It should be synchronized with `Range#cover?`. ---------------------------------------- Feature #19588: Allow Comparable#clamp(min, max) to accept nil as a specification https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/19588#change-102723 * Author: kyanagi (Kouhei Yanagita) * Status: Open * Priority: Normal ---------------------------------------- `Comparable#clamp(min, max)` (with two arguments) accepts `nil`. This behaves the same as beginless/endless Range. ~~~ruby 5.clamp(nil, 0) # => 0 5.clamp(10, nil) # => 10 5.clamp(..0) # => 0 5.clamp(10..) # => 10 ~~~ This behavior is not documented. Presumably, this was not introduced intentionally. The old Rubies did not accept accept a `Range` argument. In Ruby 2.7, accepting `Range` as an argument was introduced. At that time, the approach of passing `nil` as a two-argument method was also discussed but not adopted, and using Range was chosen instead. https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/14784 However, in Ruby 3.0, the behavior of `clamp` has changed to accept `nil`. This change is not documented in the NEWS or the documentation for `clamp`, and I believe that it was not an intentional change. ~~~ % docker run -it --rm rubylang/all-ruby env ALL_RUBY_SINCE=ruby-2.4.0 ./all-ruby -e "p 5.clamp(0, nil)" ruby-2.4.0 -e:1:in `clamp': comparison of Integer with nil failed (ArgumentError) from -e:1:in `
' exit 1 ... ruby-2.7.8 -e:1:in `clamp': comparison of Integer with nil failed (ArgumentError) from -e:1:in `
' exit 1 ruby-3.0.0-preview1 5 ... ruby-3.2.2 5 ~~~ It seems that https://github.com/ruby/ruby/commit/a93da4970be44a473b7b42e7516eb2663dece2c3 brought about this change. How about making the current behavior a specification? It has been three years since the behavior changed, and I don't see much point in prohibiting `nil` now. -- https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/ ______________________________________________ ruby-core mailing list -- ruby-core@ml.ruby-lang.org To unsubscribe send an email to ruby-core-leave@ml.ruby-lang.org ruby-core info -- https://ml.ruby-lang.org/mailman3/postorius/lists/ruby-core.ml.ruby-lang.org/