From: "nobu (Nobuyoshi Nakada)" Date: 2013-12-07T09:41:27+09:00 Subject: [ruby-core:58929] [ruby-trunk - Bug #9223] Hash#reject!.size does not reflect changes to the hash Issue #9223 has been updated by nobu (Nobuyoshi Nakada). Seems inverse. Hash#reject is equivalent to the following ruby code: def reject(&block) dup.delete_if(&block) end That is, the change on the original receiver can't affect the result. ---------------------------------------- Bug #9223: Hash#reject!.size does not reflect changes to the hash https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/9223#change-43478 Author: dmarcotte (Daniel Marcotte) Status: Open Priority: Normal Assignee: Category: Target version: ruby -v: ruby 2.0.0p353 Backport: 1.9.3: UNKNOWN, 2.0.0: UNKNOWN Here's an example demonstrating the issue, comparing to the regular reject behavior: h = {a: 'A', b: 'B'} reject_enum = h.reject reject_bang_enum = h.reject! h[:c] = 'C' p reject_enum.size # 3 p reject_bang_enum.size # 2 -- http://bugs.ruby-lang.org/