requiring 'ffi' defines class method :error on Module
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Key: JRUBY-5138
URL: http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/JRUBY-5138
Project: JRuby
Issue Type: Bug
Affects Versions: JRuby 1.5.3, JRuby 1.5.2
Reporter: Alex Boisvert
Assignee: Thomas E Enebo
As title says, requiring 'ffi' defines class method :error on Module
{code}
boisv...@smudge:/opt/boisvert/jruby-1.5.3/bin$ ./jirb
irb(main):001:0> require 'rubygems'
=> true
irb(main):002:0> require 'ffi'
=> true
irb(main):003:0> Module.error
=> 2
{code}
This is unfortunate because because all modules then inherit the :error method
and it may shadow/conflict with existing :error methods (with possibly
different arity).
We recently ran into this issue on the Apache Buildr project
(https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/BUILDR-535) since we define an
error(msg) method for build error-reporting convenience.
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