[ruby-core:83857] [Ruby trunk Feature#14123] Kernel#pp by default

Issue #14123 has been updated by jeremyevans0 (Jeremy Evans).


Eregon (Benoit Daloze) wrote:
> The thread safety problem is due to `undef`, right?

Correct.  The `pp` library  defines `Kernel#pp`, so in verbose mode if you don't undef or remove the method first, this causes a warning in verbose mode.  I think a verbose mode warning is preferable to thread-unsafe code.  Here's a possible alternative implementation:

~~~ruby
module Kernel
  def pp(*a)
    require 'pp'
  rescue LoadError
    p(*a)
  else
    pp(*a)
  end
end
~~~

To avoid the verbose mode warning, we could have `pp` include a different module in `Object` instead of modifying `Kernel` directly, and then use `Kernel.send(:remove_method, :pp)` to remove the method, but we'd need to rescue `NameError` raised by the `remove_method` call to ensure thread safety in that case.

Note that in all of these cases, `Kernel#pp` will break if `Kernel` is frozen.

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Feature #14123: Kernel#pp by default
https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/14123#change-67886

* Author: mame (Yusuke Endoh)
* Status: Open
* Priority: Normal
* Assignee: matz (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
* Target version: 2.5
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Matz, may I commit this?  I really want this.

```
diff --git a/prelude.rb b/prelude.rb
index 7b98e28285..87f49ac9fb 100644
--- a/prelude.rb
+++ b/prelude.rb
@@ -141,3 +141,11 @@ def irb
     irb
   end
 end
+
+module Kernel
+  def pp(*objs)
+    undef :pp
+    require 'pp'
+    pp(*objs)
+  end
+end
```



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