Irb crash

I'm new so I don't know if/where I should report this...

if I type:

String = Hash

in irb twice it crashes. it crashed with other stuff besides Hash, too. just doing it twice at once with a semicolon doesn't crash immediately.

OS X 10.4.6
ruby 1.8.4 (2005-12-24) [powerpc-darwin8.5.0]
irb 0.9.5(05/04/13)

curi-g5:~ curi$ irb
irb(main):001:0> String = Hash
(irb):1: warning: already initialized constant String
=> Hash
irb(main):002:0> String = Hash
/usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/irb/ruby-token.rb:101:in `Token': undefined method `ancestors' for "=":String (NoMethodError)
         from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/irb/ruby-lex.rb:400:in `lex_init'
         from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/irb/slex.rb:237:in `match_io'
         from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/irb/slex.rb:222:in `match_io'
         from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/irb/slex.rb:76:in `match'
         from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/irb/ruby-lex.rb:287:in `token'
         from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/irb/ruby-lex.rb:263:in `lex'
         from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/irb/ruby-lex.rb:234:in `each_top_level_statement'
         from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/irb/ruby-lex.rb:230:in `each_top_level_statement'
         from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/irb/ruby-lex.rb:229:in `each_top_level_statement'
         from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/irb.rb:146:in `eval_input'
         from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/irb.rb:70:in `start'
         from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/irb.rb:69:in `start'
         from /usr/local/bin/irb:13
curi-g5:~ curi$

-- Elliot Temple

Hi,

ยทยทยท

In message "Re: irb crash" on Tue, 9 May 2006 14:36:33 +0900, Elliot Temple <curi@curi.us> writes:

I'm new so I don't know if/where I should report this...

if I type:

String = Hash

in irb twice it crashes. it crashed with other stuff besides Hash,
too. just doing it twice at once with a semicolon doesn't crash
immediately.

Re-assigning predefined class like String should cause serious
problems such as you've seen. Ruby allows you to shoot your foot.

              matz.