From: Yui NARUSE <naruse@...>
Date: 2011-08-05T11:17:07+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:38809] [Ruby 1.9 - Bug #5158][Assigned]  to_ary not respecting respond_to?


Issue #5158 has been updated by Yui NARUSE.

Status changed from Open to Assigned
Assignee set to Nobuyoshi Nakada


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Bug #5158:  to_ary not respecting respond_to?
http://redmine.ruby-lang.org/issues/5158

Author: Ryan Davis
Status: Assigned
Priority: Normal
Assignee: Nobuyoshi Nakada
Category: 
Target version: 
ruby -v: -


class BadProxyObject
  def initialize
    @p = Object.new
    def @p.to_ary
      raise "I should never be called"
    end
  end

  def respond_to?(*a)
    p :bad_respond_to? => a
    false
  end

  def method_missing(msg, *)
    p :bad_method_missing => msg
    @p.send msg
  end
end

[[BadProxyObject.new]].flatten

# {:bad_method_missing=>:to_ary}
# Exception `RuntimeError' at wtf.rb:6 - I should never be called
# wtf.rb:6:in `to_ary': I should never be called (RuntimeError)
#   from wtf.rb:17:in `method_missing'
#   from wtf.rb:21:in `flatten'
#   from wtf.rb:21:in `<main>'

Extra Info: http://tenderlovemaking.com/2011/06/28/til-its-ok-to-return-nil-from-to_ary/


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