Ruby-dev summary 21883-21927

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[ruby-dev:21883] right hand Regexp
Koji Arai proposed a method Object#=~ so that we can write
a Regexp object on the right hand as follows.

obj =~ /foo/

In his opinion, if ‘obj’ responds to ‘to_str’, the above code
has the same meaning as the following one.

obj.to_str =~ /foo/

Matz refused the proposal, since he thought that ‘to_str’ should
be used to convert a parameter passed to a method and we should
prepare an object with all methods of String if we want to
consider it a String object.
He then proposed a module which provides an object with a set of
methods of String if the object has to_str.

[ruby-dev:21902] [Oniguruma] version 1.9.5
Kosako informed us the new version of Onigruma.

[ruby-dev:21911] how to call ruby from multiple native threads
Shugo Maeda posted a part of mod_ruby sources to show how to
use functions of ruby from multiple native threads.
In his implementation, he uses a queue by which function calls
from each native thread are forwarded to a native thread for ruby.

[ruby-dev:21925] CGI#read_multipart raises NoMethodError
Akira Yamada posted something like a bug of cgi.rb. In this
talk, Matz wrote two issues about cgi.rb which he heard in
Ruby Conference.

  • It is hard to know if a received data format is multipart.
    • One solution is to wrap it with something which behaves
      like String.
  • It is hard to know if a received data is a kind of
    StringIO or a Tempfile.
    • One proposal is to convert a StringIO object to a
      Tempfile object when calling the ‘local_path’ method.
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