Hey,
The next REPL session works fine in MRI but in IR it throws an error:
str = “sss”
=> “sss”
ObjectSpace.each_object(String) { |x| puts x }
d:\IronRuby\GitRepository2\ironruby\Merlin\Main\Languages\Ruby\Libraries.LCA_RESTRICTED\Builtins\ObjectSpace.cs:37:in
`each_object’: each_object only supported for objects of type Class or
Module (RuntimeError)
from :0
I looked a bit into it and IR identifies String as a descendant of
Object and not Module as it expects. This problem makes it impossible
to run each_object on Numeric as well (and I guess more types that are
mapped directly to CLR types).
Should I create a bug?
Thanks!
Shay.
This is by design. We don’t support enumerating objects that are not
modules. A string instance is not a module.
Why do you need to enumerate all allocated strings?
Tomas
I don’t have a specific need for that right now. However, it does sound
logical to me that you’d want to get all the strings in your
application. It
becomes even more reasonable when you run each_object with Thread, to
find
out all defined. This doesn’t work as well.
But, this is not the most used class out there so I IronRuby will
continue
to ROCK despite that.
Thanks for the reply Tomas,
Shay.
On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 1:00 AM, Tomas M. <
Such feature would incur a significant performance hit to all
applications. If you really need to get all instances of some class you
can e.g. monkey-patch its initialize method and store the instances in a
(weak) list. Although we could provide a command line option that would
allow us to match MRI’s semantics of each_object precisely, I don’t see
a strong use case for such feature. All use cases I have seen so far
could be implemented in much more efficient way that doesn’t rely on
ObjectSpace.
Tomas
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Sent: Sunday, October 25, 2009 10:10 PM
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Subject: Re: [Ironruby-core] Something’s wrong with ObjectSpace
I don’t have a specific need for that right now. However, it does sound
logical to me that you’d want to get all the strings in your
application. It becomes even more reasonable when you run each_object
with Thread, to find out all defined. This doesn’t work as well.
But, this is not the most used class out there so I IronRuby will
continue to ROCK despite that.
Thanks for the reply Tomas,
Shay.
On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 1:00 AM, Tomas M.
<[email protected]mailto:[email protected]>
wrote:
This is by design. We don’t support enumerating objects that are not
modules. A string instance is not a module.
Why do you need to enumerate all allocated strings?
Tomas