Issue #19788 has been updated by nobu (Nobuyoshi Nakada). Backport changed from 3.0: UNKNOWN, 3.1: UNKNOWN, 3.2: UNKNOWN to 3.0: REQUIRED, 3.1: REQUIRED, 3.2: REQUIRED https://github.com/ruby/ruby/pull/8144 ---------------------------------------- Bug #19788: Ripper returns a symbol instead of a token as operator for "::" https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/19788#change-104009 * Author: thyresias (Thierry Lambert) * Status: Open * Priority: Normal * ruby -v: ruby 3.2.2 (2023-03-30 revision e51014f9c0) [x64-mingw-ucrt] * Backport: 3.0: REQUIRED, 3.1: REQUIRED, 3.2: REQUIRED ---------------------------------------- ```ruby require 'ripper' class BasicParser < Ripper EVENTS.each do |event| module_eval(<<~RUBY, __FILE__, __LINE__ + 1) def on_#{event}(*args) puts "#{event}(\#{args.inspect})" args.unshift :#{event} args end RUBY end end require 'pp' BasicParser.new('a&.b').parse # in stdout: # ident(["a"]) # op(["&."]) # vcall([[:ident, "a"]]) # ident(["b"]) # call([[:vcall, [:ident, "a"]], [:op, "&."], [:ident, "b"]]) BasicParser.new('a::b').parse # in stdout: # ident(["a"]) # op(["::"]) # vcall([[:ident, "a"]]) # ident(["b"]) # call([[:vcall, [:ident, "a"]], :"::", [:ident, "b"]]) ``` On the last line, consistent with `&.`, I would have expected: ```ruby # call([[:vcall, [:ident, "a"]], [:op, "::"], [:ident, "b"]]) ``` This is true for the "operator" argument of `call`, `command_call` and `field`. Is it intended? -- https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/