[ruby-core:80292] [Ruby trunk Bug#13358] OpenStruct overriding allocate

Issue #13358 has been reported by sitter (Harald Sitter).

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Bug #13358: OpenStruct overriding allocate
https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/13358

* Author: sitter (Harald Sitter)
* Status: Open
* Priority: Normal
* Assignee: 
* Target version: 
* ruby -v: ruby 2.4.0p0 (2016-12-24 revision 57164) [x86_64-linux]
* Backport: 2.2: UNKNOWN, 2.3: UNKNOWN, 2.4: UNKNOWN
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In https://github.com/ruby/ruby/commit/15960b37e82ba60455c480b1c23e1567255d3e05 OpenStruct gained

~~~
  class << self # :nodoc:
    alias allocate new
  end
~~~

Which is rather severely conflicting with expected behavior as Class.allocate is meant to [not call initialize](http://ruby-doc.org/core-2.4.0/Class.html#method-i-allocate). So, in fact, the change made allocate of OpenStruct do what allocate is asserting not to do :-/

For OpenStruct itself that isn't that big a deal, for classes inheriting from OpenStruct it breaks allocate though.

Example:

~~~
require 'ostruct'

class A < OpenStruct
  def initialize(x, y = {})
    super(y)
  end
end

A.allocate
~~~

As `allocate` is alias'd to `new` in `OpenStruct` this will attempt to initialize `A` which will raise an `ArgumentError` because `A` cannot be initialized without arguments.

~~~
$ ruby x.rb
x.rb:4:in `initialize': wrong number of arguments (given 0, expected 1..2) (ArgumentError)
        from x.rb:9:in `new'
        from x.rb:9:in `<main>'
~~~

OpenStruct at the very least should document the fact that its allocate is behaving differently.
Ideally, OpenStruct should not alias allocate at all.



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