From: John W Higgins <wishdev@...>
Date: 2009-07-23T01:41:39+09:00
Subject: Re: Incorrect -0.0.hash - Ruby bug.

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Morning Thomas,

On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 9:24 AM, Thomas B. <tpreal@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello. I just found a bug in Ruby, version 1.9.1p0, Windows.
>
> In the rdoc to Object#hash we read
> (http://ruby-doc.org/core/classes/Object.html#M000337):
>
> "This function must have the property that a.eql?(b) implies a.hash ==
> b.hash."
>

Actually Float overrides both #eql? and #hash so the contract is not
applicable inside that class. Is that the best option in the world?? -
probably not - but that would make it a non bug in theory.

John

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