#1381: Calling objective-c method with semicolon before 1st arg sometimes works --------------------------------+------------------------------------------- Reporter: sohocoke@… | Owner: lsansonetti@… Type: defect | Status: new Priority: major | Milestone: Component: MacRuby | Keywords: --------------------------------+------------------------------------------- Comment(by sohocoke@…): Sorry for the formatting. Here it is again: {{{ [ilo-robbie@nibbler:~]$ macirb -f # demonstrate flexible syntax irb(main):002:0> s1 = NSString.stringWithString("hi") => "hi" irb(main):003:0> s2 = NSString.stringWithString:"hi" => "hi" # some other weirdness observed during equality tests using objective-c methods - didn't have time to look into this, could be related irb(main):004:0> s1.isEqual:s2 => 0 irb(main):005:0> s1.isEqualToString:s2 => 0 irb(main):006:0> s1 == s2 => true irb(main):007:0> s1.isEqual(s2) => 1 # demonstrate normal operation irb(main):009:0> p1 = "/tmp/macruby-file" => "/tmp/macruby-file" irb(main):010:0> `ls #{p1}` ls: /tmp/macruby-file: No such file or directory => "" irb(main):018:0> framework 'cocoa' => true irb(main):019:0> s1.writeToFile(p1, atomically:true, encoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding, error:nil) => true irb(main):020:0> `ls #{p1}` => "/tmp/macruby-file\n" irb(main):021:0> `rm #{p1}; ls #{p1}` ls: /tmp/macruby-file: No such file or directory => "" # demonstrate weird operation when using flexible syntax irb(main):022:0> s1.writeToFile:p1, atomically:true, encoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding, error:nil => true irb(main):023:0> `ls #{p1}` ls: /tmp/macruby-file: No such file or directory => "" # i'm going to guess that the symbol :p1 got passed to the call. }}} -- Ticket URL: <http://www.macruby.org/trac/ticket/1381#comment:1> MacRuby <http://macruby.org/>