>> > Why is this issue closed? Is the current behaviour acceptable? >> >> Can you still reproduce this issue? >> > > Not the original issue. But it seemed to me that this issue was left > open because it introduced other problems (discussed above). Now that > this one has closed, I'm wondering what happened to this new issue? As Yui explained, nobu fixed and commited it into ruby_1_9_3 branch. so I'm not thinking the regression above discussed disappeared. If you run latest ruby_1_9_3 branch and find any issue, please let us know asap. Thank you for paying attention our bugfixes effort.