[ruby-core:55159] [ruby-trunk - misc #8447][Closed] BasicObject id behaviour

Issue #8447 has been updated by nobu (Nobuyoshi Nakada).

Status changed from Open to Closed

It's just an implementation detail, 0x9773a68 == 0x4bb9d34.
----------------------------------------
misc #8447: BasicObject id behaviour
https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/8447#change-39524

Author: kyrylo (Kyrylo Silin)
Status: Closed
Priority: Low
Assignee: nobu (Nobuyoshi Nakada)
Category: misc
Target version: 


=begin
This is not really an issue. This is rather a question. It's about ids of BasicObject instances. When I invoke an undefined method on a BasicObject instance, I get an odd NoMethodError. The message of this error informs me that an undefined method is undefined on some other BasicObject (it has a different id). The code demonstrates the problem better.

 b = BasicObject.new
 eig = class << b; self; end
 puts "A BasicObject's id: #{ b.__id__.to_s(16) }"
 puts "Eigenclass' id: #{ eig.__id__.to_s(16) }"
 puts "Eigenclass' inspect: #{ eig.inspect }"
 begin
   b.piyo
 rescue => e
   puts e
 end

Output.

 A BasicObject's id: 4e1d918
 Eigenclass' id: 4e1d90e
 Eigenclass' inspect: #<Class:#<BasicObject:0x9c3b230>>
 undefined method `piyo' for #<BasicObject:0x9c3b230>

This is how it looks in a REPL. The ids are different.

 irb(main):001:0> b = BasicObject.new
 (Object doesn't support #inspect)
 => 
 irb(main):002:0> b.__id__.to_s(16)
 => "4bb9d34"
 irb(main):003:0> b.piyo
 NoMethodError: undefined method `piyo' for #<BasicObject:0x9773a68>
 from (irb):3
 from /opt/rubies/ruby-1.9.3-p392/bin/irb:12:in `<main>'
 irb(main):004:0>


I tested this against Ruby 1.9.3, Ruby 2.0.0. I guess this is by design, because I got the same result on JRuby. So I'm just curious, what happens here?
=end


-- 
http://bugs.ruby-lang.org/