From: Steve Klabnik <steve@...>
Date: 2011-06-27T02:08:54+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:37542] [Ruby 1.9 - Bug #3022] What are $. and ARGF.lineno ?


Issue #3022 has been updated by Steve Klabnik.


Perl actually keeps a separate document to explain these variables, 'Perlvar' http://perldoc.perl.org/perlvar.html
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Bug #3022: What are $. and ARGF.lineno ?
http://redmine.ruby-lang.org/issues/3022

Author: Marc-Andre Lafortune
Status: Assigned
Priority: Low
Assignee: Eric Hodel
Category: core
Target version: 1.9.x
ruby -v: ruby 1.9.2dev (2010-03-03 trunk 26805) [x86_64-darwin10.2.0] 


=begin
 1) $. is not officially documented.
 
 This makes it difficult to know if it works as expected or not...
 
 The Ruby Prog Language (Flanagan & Matz) states:
 "The number of the last line read from the current input file. Equivalent to ARGF.lineno."
 
 This is not true in trunk, as demonstrated by:
 
   $ rubydev -e "
       ARGF.gets
       File.open('/etc/passwd'){|f| f.gets; f.gets}
       p $., ARGF.lineno
     " /etc/hosts
   2
   1
 
 
 What is the "current input file"? Not clear, but it's not thread local, as shown:
 
   $ rubydev -e "
     p $.
     Thread.new{File.open('/etc/passwd').gets; p $. }.join;
     p $.
   "
   0
   1
   1
 
 
 
 2) ARGF.lineno does not conform to its doc.
 
 The doc states:
 
   Returns the current line number of the current file in ARGF. This value
   can be set manually with ARGF.lineno=.
 
 
 Reading this, I would expect ARGF.lineno to be the same as ARGF.to_io.lineno.
 
 That is not the case:
 
   rubydev -e 'p "#{ARGF.lineno} #{ARGF.to_io.lineno}" while ARGF.gets' /etc/hosts /etc/passwd
   "1 1"
   "2 2"
   ...
   "25 1"
   "26 2"
   ...
 
 
 1) Maybe the best definition would be that $. returns the number of line read operations issued, from the last time an IO was read in the current thread?
 
 2) I suggest the documentation of ARGF.lineno be changed to:
 
   Returns the current line number of ARGF as a whole. This value
   can be set manually with ARGF.lineno=.
 
 
 See also [ruby-core:26303]
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