In fact, there's already a track ticket for that (and I think that's the discussion Laurent was looking for):
http://www.macruby.org/trac/ticket/726 :-) -- Thibault Martin-Lagardette On Jul 13, 2010, at 13:02, Laurent Sansonetti wrote: > Hi, > > I believe this has been discussed on trac already, although I can't seem to > find the ticket. > > In short, this is expected behavior. A method added to the String class will > only be available to strings created from Ruby. If you want a method to be > available to all strings, add it to the NSString class. I do agree that this > can be confusing behavior and maybe we can try to reduce the confusion > somehow. This design was implemented in 0.6 and is the result of several > debates. I personally didn't expect people would notice this :) > > Laurent > > On Jul 13, 2010, at 10:59 AM, Michael Jackson wrote: > >> This sounds like a bug to me. Have you filed a ticket? >> >> http://trac.macosforge.org/projects/ruby/newticket >> >> -- >> Michael Jackson >> http://mjijackson.com >> @mjijackson >> >> >> >> On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 6:02 PM, Henry Maddocks >> <[email protected]> wrote: >>> With respect to the following code >>> >>> 1 require 'test/unit' >>> 2 >>> 3 class String >>> 4 def my_method >>> 5 "My Method " + self >>> 6 end >>> 7 end >>> 8 >>> 9 class Test_Tumblr < Test::Unit::TestCase >>> 10 >>> 11 def test_strings >>> 12 cocoa_string = NSString::stringWithString("blah") >>> 13 ruby_string = "Ruby String" >>> 14 >>> 15 assert_equal String, cocoa_string.class >>> 16 assert_equal String, ruby_string.class >>> 17 assert_equal cocoa_string.class, ruby_string.class >>> 18 >>> 19 assert ruby_string.respond_to?(:my_method), >>> "ruby_string.respond_to?" >>> 20 assert cocoa_string.respond_to?(:my_method), >>> "cocoa_string.respond_to?" >>> 21 end >>> 22 >>> 23 end >>> >>> >>> What is the expected result of line 20? >>> >>> On the one hand cocoa_string is an NSString so the monkey patch shouldn't >>> have any effect, but on the other cocoa_string is claiming to be a ruby >>> String. >>> >>> Henry >>> _______________________________________________ >>> MacRuby-devel mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macruby-devel >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> MacRuby-devel mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macruby-devel > > _______________________________________________ > MacRuby-devel mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macruby-devel
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