From: Lyle Johnson <lyle@...>
Date: 2002-08-07T22:43:49+09:00
Subject: Re: Dup and Clone

Kent Dahl wrote:

> The freeze big I kinda understand, the instance variables, however, I
> guess is a bug of some sort:
> 
> $ cat dup.rb
> x = "foo"
> x.instance_eval { @y = 2 }
> puts "x.dup.y = " , 
>   x.dup.instance_eval   { @y } #=> 2
> puts "x.clone.y = " , 
>   x.clone.instance_eval { @y } #=> 2
> 
> 
> $ ruby -v dup.rb ; /usr/local/bin/ruby -v dup.rb
> ruby 1.6.6 (2001-12-26) [i586-linux-gnu]
> dup.rb:7: warning: instance variable @y not initialized
> x.dup.y = 
> nil
> x.clone.y = 
> 2
> ruby 1.7.2 (2002-07-13) [i686-linux]
> x.dup.y = 
> 2
> x.clone.y = 
> 2

Hmmm... I see the same changed in behavior here when going from Ruby 
1.6.7 to Ruby 1.7.2. And I don't see it mentioned in the doc/NEWS so I 
wonder if this was an intentional change?