From: nobu@...
Date: 2006-08-16T15:23:35+09:00
Subject: Re: strange bit of code

Hi,

At Wed, 16 Aug 2006 12:58:57 +0900,
Matthew Johnson wrote in [ruby-talk:208741]:
> I came across an unusual behavior of remove_method the other day.   
> When I discovered that it didn't work as I expected I experimented  
> until I found a relatively simple example illustrating what happens.   
> The show method doesn't seem to be removed when the example calls  
> remove_method, but it is removed as soon as a show method is defined  
> in any module or class, even if is defined in a module or class not  
> related in any way to the module it is removed from.  Can anyone  
> explain why this works the way it does?

I think it's a fixed bug.  Can you try it with latest snapshot?

$ grep -C2 rb_clear_cache ChangeLog
Mon Jul 10 09:29:12 2006  Nobuyoshi Nakada  <nobu@ruby-lang.org>

	* eval.c (rb_clear_cache_for_undef): clear entries for included
	  module.  fixed: [ruby-core:08180]

-- 
Nobu Nakada