Issue #19167 has been updated by eightbitraptor (Matthew Valentine-House). File 0001-Fix-Object-inspect-with-NilClass-as-an-ivar.patch added tompng (tomoya ishida) wrote:
~~~ruby Object.new.instance_eval do @a = nil @b = NilClass @c = true @d = TrueClass @e = [nil, NilClass, true, TrueClass] puts self.inspect end # actual # => #<Object:0x2f15e3c8 @a=nil, @b=nil, @c=true, @d=true, @e=[nil, NilClass, true, TrueClass]> # expected # => #<Object:0x2f15e3c8 @a=nil, @b=NilClass, @c=true, @d=TrueClass, @e=[nil, NilClass, true, TrueClass]> ~~~
This is exhibiting the same behaviour on the `master` branch. This looks to be happening because `inspect_i` from `object.c` gets called for each instance variable, and that is using the `PRIsVALUE` macro to print out the values, whereas when we inspect the array in `@e` we use `rb_ary_inspect` which prints each element using `rb_inspect`, and the behaviour of these two differs when being used on `NilClass` and `TrueClass` I agree that this seems like unintended behaviour, and I've attached a possible patch. I haven't yet investigated fully how `PRIsVALUE` works - so my solution may not be the correct one, nor have I investigated whether there is any performance overhead to using `rb_inspect` in the `inspect_i` case. ---------------------------------------- Bug #19167: Object#inspect does not correctly show NilClass TrueClass and FalseClass stored in instance variables https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/19167#change-100512 * Author: tompng (tomoya ishida) * Status: Open * Priority: Normal * ruby -v: ruby 3.1.0p0 (2021-12-25 revision fb4df44d16) [x86_64-darwin20] * Backport: 2.7: UNKNOWN, 3.0: UNKNOWN, 3.1: UNKNOWN ---------------------------------------- ~~~ruby Object.new.instance_eval do @a = nil @b = NilClass @c = true @d = TrueClass @e = [nil, NilClass, true, TrueClass] puts self.inspect end # actual # => #<Object:0x2f15e3c8 @a=nil, @b=nil, @c=true, @d=true, @e=[nil, NilClass, true, TrueClass]> # expected # => #<Object:0x2f15e3c8 @a=nil, @b=NilClass, @c=true, @d=TrueClass, @e=[nil, NilClass, true, TrueClass]> ~~~ ---Files-------------------------------- 0001-Fix-Object-inspect-with-NilClass-as-an-ivar.patch (751 Bytes) -- https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/