[#100689] [Ruby master Feature#17303] Make webrick to bundled gems or remove from stdlib — hsbt@...

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[#100715] [Ruby master Bug#17306] TestGCCompact#test_ast_compacts test failures — v.ondruch@...

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[#100720] [Ruby master Feature#17307] A way to mark C extensions as thread-safe, Ractor-safe, or unsafe — eregontp@...

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[#100744] [Ruby master Bug#17310] Closed ractors should die — marcandre-ruby-core@...

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[#100753] [Ruby master Feature#17312] New methods in Enumerable and Enumerator::Lazy: flatten, product, compact — zverok.offline@...

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[#100763] [Ruby master Feature#17314] Provide a way to declare visibility of attributes defined by attr* methods in a single expression — radek.bulat@...

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[#100777] [Ruby master Feature#17316] On memoization — sawadatsuyoshi@...

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[#100788] [Ruby master Misc#17319] Rename Random::urandom to os_random and document random data sources — zofrex@...

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[#100807] [Ruby master Feature#17322] Deprecate `Random::DEFAULT` and introduce `Random.default()` method to provide Ractor-supported default random generator — ko1@...

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[#100816] [Ruby master Feature#17323] Ractor::LVar to provide ractor-local storage — ko1@...

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[#100849] [Ruby master Feature#17325] Adds Fiber#cancel, which forces a Fiber to break/return — nicholas.evans@...

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[#100852] [Ruby master Feature#17326] Add Kernel#must! to the standard library — zimmerman.jake@...

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[#100858] [Ruby master Feature#17327] The Queue constructor should take an initial set of items — chris@...

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[#100897] [Ruby master Feature#17330] Object#non — zverok.offline@...

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[#100925] [Ruby master Feature#17331] Let Fiber#raise work with transferring fibers — nicholas.evans@...

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[#100930] [Ruby master Feature#17333] Enumerable#many? — masafumi.o1988@...

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[#101093] [Ruby master Misc#17346] DevelopersMeeting20201210Japan — mame@...

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[#101141] [Ruby master Bug#17354] Module#const_source_location is misleading for constants awaiting autoload — tom@...

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[#101143] [Ruby master Feature#17355] Or-patterns (pattern matching like Foo(x) | Bar(x)) — fg@...

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[#101153] [Ruby master Feature#17356] Alignment of memory allocated through Fiddle struct's malloc — andrea.ribuoli@...

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[ruby-core:101154] [Ruby master Bug#17354] Module#const_source_location is misleading for constants awaiting autoload

From: ufuk@...
Date: 2020-11-30 12:16:18 UTC
List: ruby-core #101154
Issue #17354 has been updated by ufuk (Ufuk Kayserilioglu).


@mame In my use-case, I would very much like `Module#const_source_location` to tell me where the constant is loaded or *would be loaded from if it is autoloaded*. I am doing runtime reflection to discover types in gems and their associated methods, constants, etc in Tapioca, and my biggest problem so far has been detecting which file a constant is originally loaded from. I'd been waiting for `Module#const_source_location` to give me that information, even if the constant has not been loaded yet. The autoload file location, theoretically, could point to a file in a different gem or even to `bootsnap` if it is in play, which stops this use-case from working properly.

I would very much like `Module#const_source_location` to work like this:
```ruby
% echo 'class Foo; end' > foo.rb

% irb
>> Module.const_defined?(:Foo)
=> false
>> Module.const_source_location(:Foo)
=> nil

>> autoload :Foo, './foo'
=> nil

>> Module.const_defined?(:Foo)
=> true
>> Module.const_source_location(:Foo)
=> ["./foo.rb", nil]

>> Module.const_get(:Foo)
=> Foo

>> Module.const_defined?(:Foo)
=> true
>> Module.const_source_location(:Foo)
=> ["./foo.rb", 1]
```
since Ruby basically knows where `Foo` *will be* loaded from, but cannot tell us what line number it will be from without actually loading the file. Thus, I propose the line number be `nil` in that case.

Do you think that works?

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Bug #17354: Module#const_source_location is misleading for constants awaiting autoload
https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/17354#change-88840

* Author: tomstuart (Tom Stuart)
* Status: Open
* Priority: Normal
* ruby -v: ruby 2.7.2p137 (2020-10-01 revision 5445e04352) [x86_64-darwin20]
* Backport: 2.5: UNKNOWN, 2.6: UNKNOWN, 2.7: UNKNOWN
----------------------------------------
Feature #10771 added `Module#const_source_location` as a way to find the source location of a constant’s definition. Bug #16764 reported that it didn’t work correctly for autoloaded constants, instead giving the source location of the `autoload` call site. This was fixed in `v3_0_0_preview1` in commit:92730810 and backported to `v2_7_2` in commit:c65aae11.

However, `#const_source_location` still returns the `autoload` call site for constants which have not yet been loaded:

```
% echo 'class Foo; end' > foo.rb

% irb
>> Module.const_defined?(:Foo)
=> false
>> Module.const_source_location(:Foo)
=> nil

>> autoload :Foo, './foo'
=> nil

>> Module.const_defined?(:Foo)
=> true
>> Module.const_source_location(:Foo)
=> ["(irb)", 3]

>> Module.const_get(:Foo)
=> Foo

>> Module.const_defined?(:Foo)
=> true
>> Module.const_source_location(:Foo)
=> ["./foo.rb", 1]
```

This edge case is undocumented and surprising. It looks like a bug to the programmer who receives the `autoload` location instead of one of the documented return values of `#const_source_location` (`nil`, `[]`, or the definition’s source location).

We could either:

* change the behaviour of `#const_source_location` to return `[]` for constants awaiting autoload, which is consistent with the [return value of `Module#const_defined?`](https://docs.ruby-lang.org/en/2.7.0/Module.html#method-i-const_defined-3F) in this case (“if the constant is not present but there is an autoload for it, `true` is returned directly”), as well as the [return value of `#const_source_location`](https://docs.ruby-lang.org/en/2.7.0/Module.html#method-i-const_source_location) for other constants whose source location is unknown (“if the constant is found, but its source location can not be extracted (constant is defined in C code), empty array is returned”); or
* document the current behaviour of `#const_source_location` to make it less surprising.

I recommend the first option — although the current behaviour was recently specified in source:spec/ruby/core/module/const_source_location_spec.rb@6d059674#L209, it doesn’t seem intentional — but if that’s not feasible, simply documenting this edge case would also be an improvement.



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