Issue #22099 has been updated by luke-gru (Luke Gruber). I created a [PR](https://github.com/ruby/ruby/pull/17581). It's currently being reviewed. ---------------------------------------- Bug #22099: Keyword-only method silently accepts a positional argument https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/22099#change-117885 * Author: rumoto (Hiroki Motoyoshi) * Status: Open * ruby -v: ruby 3.4.9 (2026-03-11 revision 76cca827ab) +PRISM [arm64-darwin24] * Backport: 3.3: DONTNEED, 3.4: REQUIRED, 4.0: REQUIRED ---------------------------------------- A method that declares only keyword parameters accepts a positional argument without raising, but only from the second call onward; a prior valid keyword call to the same method is required to trigger it. Once triggered, the positional value is bound to the first keyword and an explicitly passed keyword of the same name is dropped. ```ruby class Foo def bar(a: nil, b: nil) p [:body, a: a, b: b] end end foo = Foo.new foo.bar(a: 1, b: 2) #=> [:body, {a: 1, b: 2}] foo.bar(99, a: 0) #=> [:body, {a: 99, b: nil}] foo.bar(99, b: 0) #=> [:body, {a: nil, b: 99}] ``` Although one positional argument is passed, no exception is raised. The positional value (`99`) is bound to the first keyword `a`, and the explicitly passed keyword (`a: 0` / `b: 0`) is not reflected in the result. Since `bar` accepts no positional arguments, an `ArgumentError (wrong number of arguments (given 1, expected 0))` should be raised. -- https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/