[MacRuby-devel] When is a String not an NSString?

[Michael Jackson]

This sounds like a bug to me. Have you filed a ticket?

http://trac.macosforge.org/projects/ruby/newticket

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Michael Jackson
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On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 6:02 PM, Henry Maddocks
<henry.maddocks at gmail.com> 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
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