From: Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@...>
Date: 2009-01-01T07:40:14+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:21031] Re: [Bug #961] a bug or a missleading documentation for Singleton module

Hi,

In message "Re: [ruby-core:21029] [Bug #961] a bug or a missleading documentation for Singleton module"
    on Thu, 1 Jan 2009 07:01:36 +0900, khaled alhabache <redmine@ruby-lang.org> writes:

|# in http://www.ruby-doc.org/stdlib/libdoc/singleton/rdoc/index.html
|# a == b # => true
|# is that a bug or missleading documentation ???

The text in the above document said (with properly formatted):

  a,b = Klass.instance, Klass.instance
  a == b # => true
  a.new  # NoMethodError - new is private … 

Your input was:

 |a,b = Klass.instance # => [#<Klass:0xebaf12>]
 |b #=> nil

Now you can see the difference.  You've typed single Klass.instance.
It apparently not a bug.  You misread it, maybe because of missing
newlines in text from ruby-doc.org.  I probably caused by missing
indentation in RDoc in signleton.rb.  I will fix this.

							matz.