From: Chris White <cwprogram@...>
Date: 2011-08-01T08:09:46+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:38633] [Ruby 1.9 - Bug #5125][Open] obj.send() documentation issue


Issue #5125 has been reported by Chris White.

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Bug #5125: obj.send() documentation issue
http://redmine.ruby-lang.org/issues/5125

Author: Chris White
Status: Open
Priority: Normal
Assignee: 
Category: 
Target version: 
ruby -v: ruby 1.9.2p290 (2011-07-09) [x86_64-darwin10.8.0]


Filing this as a bug per request of Eric Hodel on the ruby-talk mailing list. Excerpt from the mailing list post ( http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-talk/386033 ):

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obj.send(symbol [, args...]) obj
obj.__send__(symbol [, args...]) ���� obj

Somehow, I don't expect the return value of send() to be the receiver.
Let's test send()'s return value using the example provided:

class Klass
     def hello(*args)
       "Hello " + args.join(' ')
     end
end

k = Klass.new
x = k.send :hello, "gentle", "readers"

puts x.class

--output:--
String
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The issue is that appears that from the signature, the same object will be returned. This may or may not be the case depending on the return of the method that send is utilizing.


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