[MacRuby] #714: Hide certain methods on Symbol which are inherited from NSString.

[MacRuby]

#714: Hide certain methods on Symbol which are inherited from NSString.
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 Reporter:  eloy.de.enige@…          |       Owner:  eloy.de.enige@…        
     Type:  defect                   |      Status:  new                    
 Priority:  blocker                  |   Milestone:                         
Component:  MacRuby                  |    Keywords:                         
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Comment(by mike@…):

 Replying to [ticket:714 eloy.de.enige@…]:
 > An example is #include? but there might be others.

 IRB session in 1.9.1:

 {{{
 irb: "string".methods - :symbol.methods
 ===> [:+, :*, :%, :[]=, :insert, :bytesize, :succ!, :next!, :upto, :index,
 :rindex, :replace, :clear, :chr, :getbyte, :setbyte, :to_i, :to_f,
 :to_str, :dump, :upcase!, :downcase!, :capitalize!, :swapcase!, :hex,
 :oct, :split, :lines, :bytes, :chars, :codepoints, :reverse, :reverse!,
 :concat, :<<, :crypt, :ord, :include?, :start_with?, :end_with?, :scan,
 :ljust, :rjust, :center, :sub, :gsub, :chop, :chomp, :strip, :lstrip,
 :rstrip, :sub!, :gsub!, :chop!, :chomp!, :strip!, :lstrip!, :rstrip!, :tr,
 :tr_s, :delete, :squeeze, :count, :tr!, :tr_s!, :delete!, :squeeze!,
 :each_line, :each_byte, :each_char, :each_codepoint, :sum, :slice!,
 :partition, :rpartition, :force_encoding, :valid_encoding?, :ascii_only?,
 :unpack, :encode, :encode!, :to_r, :to_c]
 }}}


 IRB session in MacRuby 0.5:

 {{{
 irb: "string".methods - :symbol.methods
 ===> []
 }}}


 I haven't been able to get llvm working on my machine, so I don't have a
 patch, but I suspect a fix would be to undefined the string methods above
 here: [http://github.com/MacRuby/MacRuby/blob/trunk/symbol.c#L766]

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