From: Jeremy Evans Date: 2011-07-28T16:25:48+09:00 Subject: [ruby-core:38576] [Ruby 1.9 - Feature #5112][Open] Remove inadvertent symbol creation from send, __send__, and public_send Issue #5112 has been reported by Jeremy Evans. ---------------------------------------- Feature #5112: Remove inadvertent symbol creation from send, __send__, and public_send http://redmine.ruby-lang.org/issues/5112 Author: Jeremy Evans Status: Open Priority: Normal Assignee: Category: core Target version: When I was first working on the inadvertent symbol creation removal code, I didn't think it was possible to handle send because method_missing requires a symbol as the first argument. But once I figured out how to handle the similar situation in respond_to? for respond_to_missing? (and used the same technique with const_get for const_missing), the same idea works for the send methods. Basically, if method_missing has been overridden, you must create the symbol, but if not, you can just raise a NoMethodError without creating the symbol. I didn't add a test for it since I saw the tests for const_get and respond_to? were commented out in r32710 and r32711. -- http://redmine.ruby-lang.org