From: Urabe Shyouhei <shyouhei@...>
Date: 2009-04-21T05:37:31+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:23270] Re: StringIO: RubySpec violation

Hongli Lai wrote:
> Urabe Shyouhei wrote:
>> Hongli Lai wrote:
>>> Is this intentional?
>>
>> Yes. http://redmine.ruby-lang.org/issues/show/701
>>
>>
> 
> But is the backport to the 1.8.6 series intentional as well? I thought
> behavior changes like this are reserved for the 1.8.7 series.

The answer is yes; it seemed to me a bug anyway for stringio to silently ignore
 a passed argument.  I thought it should accept that (as it does now), or at
least raise an exception such as IndexError.