[ruby-core:35810] [Ruby 1.9 - Bug #4565][Closed] incompatible change at rev.31169 about autoload

Issue #4565 has been updated by Nobuyoshi Nakada.

Status changed from Assigned to Closed
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Bug #4565: incompatible change at rev.31169 about autoload
http://redmine.ruby-lang.org/issues/4565

Author: Hidetoshi Nagai
Status: Closed
Priority: High
Assignee: Nobuyoshi Nakada
Category: core
Target version: 1.9.3
ruby -v: ruby 1.9.3dev (2011-04-10 trunk 31255) [x86_64-linux]


 After rev.31169, const_defined? about a pre-autoloading constant on a included module returns true.
 # Ruby/Tk cannot work on rev.31169 or later.
 
 On ruby1.8 and before rev.31169, returns false.
 For example, the following outputs a different result between before rev.31169 and after.
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 module X; autoload :A, 'foo.rb'; end                                          
 module M; include X; end                                                      
 p M.const_defined? :A
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 # see also, [ruby-dev:43383].
 
 This change makes it impossible checking M::A is defined on M or included from X without autoloading,
 beacause M.autoload?(:A) returns nil.
 Even if M.autoload?(:A) returns 'foo.rb', it is not a good solution.
 It has a same problem about where the autoload is defined.
 At least, Ruby/Tk requires a way to check it for default-widget-set control.
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 Hidetoshi NAGAI ([e-mail])
 Department of Artificial Intelligence, Kyushu Institute of Technology
 


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