[ruby-core:101001] [Ruby master Bug#10845] Subclassing String

[marcandre-ruby-core@marc-andre.ca]

Issue #10845 has been updated by marcandre (Marc-Andre Lafortune).


I'll ask the same question I've asked before... Why not deprecate this first?

This gives time to Rails to issue a simple update to the versions that are supported, and in a year or two the behavior can change without breaking anything.

Fixing things is good, but there is no urgency to fix this.

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Bug #10845: Subclassing String
https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/10845#change-88669

* Author: sawa (Tsuyoshi Sawada)
* Status: Closed
* Priority: Normal
* Assignee: matz (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
* ruby -v: 2.2
* Backport: 2.0.0: UNKNOWN, 2.1: UNKNOWN, 2.2: UNKNOWN
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If I make a subclass of `String`, the method `*` returns an instance of that class.

~~~ruby
class MyString < String
end

MyString.new("foo").*(2).class #=> MyString
~~~

This is different from other similar operations like `+` and `%`, which return a `String` instance.

~~~ruby
MyString.new("foo").+("bar").class #=> String
MyString.new("%{foo}").%(foo: "bar").class #=> String
~~~

I don't see clear reason why `*` is to be different from `+` and `%`, and thought that perhaps either the behaviour with `*` is a bug, or the behaviour with `+` and `%` is a bug.

Or, is a reason why they are different?



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