From: Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@...>
Date: 2010-03-08T17:56:31+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:28557] Re: [Bug #2945] Regexp#=== is failed by an exception when the exception is occurred in method_missing

Hi,

In message "Re: [ruby-core:28556] Re: [Bug #2945] Regexp#=== is failed by an exception when the exception is occurred in method_missing"
    on Mon, 8 Mar 2010 17:47:26 +0900, Kenta Murata <muraken@gmail.com> writes:

|But, I do still not understand Regexp#=== depends on method_missing.
|I expect Regexp#=== with a non-string argument returns false.
|In Regexp#===, if an argument doesn't have to_str method,
|the argument is interpreted as a non-string, isn't it?

It's a wrong design of method_missing.  If one want exceptions from
method_missing ignored for implicit type conversion (to_str, etc.),
it should raise NoMethodError.

							matz.