From: Brian Mitchell <binary42@...>
Date: 2006-09-27T04:52:15+09:00
Subject: Re: Fixnum/String randomly changing type

On 9/26/06, Sam Web <swebster@gmail.com> wrote:
> >       puts "Info is: #{info[0].class}"
> > #     info.each { |newval| puts "#{newval.class}"; break }
>
> One small correction... to match the output I gave, the commented out
> line should read:
>
> #     info.each { |newval| puts "#{newval}"; break }
>
>
> The behavior is the same in both cases, going from String to Fixnum when
> the 'each' loop is uncommented.

This is a documented bug. The fix for those crashes made it into
1.8.5. I recommend you upgrade.

Searching ruby-core will probably give you more results. (don't have a
reference # handy right now).

(However, I also seem to still get crashes when doing rdoc processing.
I haven't been able to pin it down for a report yet though.)

Brian.