From: "Nakada, Nobuyoshi" <nobuyoshi.nakada@...>
Date: 2005-05-16T14:37:03+09:00
Subject: Re: Bug printing classes - Re: infinite number of singleton_classes

Hi,

David A. Black wrote:
> I'd rather just see the #inspect bug fixed :-)

I rather guess singleton class would not be allowed to copy, from its
definition.


Index: class.c
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvs/ruby/src/ruby/class.c,v
retrieving revision 1.89
diff -U2 -p -r1.89 class.c
--- class.c	4 Mar 2005 06:47:45 -0000	1.89
+++ class.c	16 May 2005 05:35:05 -0000
@@ -106,4 +106,7 @@ rb_class_init_copy(clone, orig)
 	rb_raise(rb_eTypeError, "already initialized class");
     }
+    if (FL_TEST(orig, FL_SINGLETON)) {
+	rb_raise(rb_eTypeError, "can't copy singleton class");
+    }
     return rb_mod_init_copy(clone, orig);
 }


-- 
Nobu Nakada