Hi,

At Fri, 20 Jun 2003 19:25:57 +0900,
ts wrote:
>  You have the same with
> 
> class A
>    def to_str
>       String.new(nil.to_s)
>    end
> end
> a = "a"
> b = A.new
> a.send(b)

I missed the same code just below.

# And I was complained about the message by unak.


Index: object.c
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvs/ruby/src/ruby/object.c,v
retrieving revision 1.119
diff -u -2 -p -r1.119 object.c
--- object.c	26 May 2003 08:22:28 -0000	1.119
+++ object.c	20 Jun 2003 10:42:33 -0000
@@ -789,5 +789,5 @@ rb_to_id(name)
     switch (TYPE(name)) {
       case T_STRING:
-	return rb_intern(RSTRING(name)->ptr);
+	return rb_str_intern(name);
       case T_FIXNUM:
 	rb_warn("do not use Fixnums as Symbols");
@@ -803,5 +803,5 @@ rb_to_id(name)
 	tmp = rb_check_string_type(name);
 	if (!NIL_P(tmp)) {
-	    return rb_intern(RSTRING(tmp)->ptr);
+	    return rb_str_intern(tmp);
 	}
 	rb_raise(rb_eTypeError, "%s is not a symbol", RSTRING(rb_inspect(name))->ptr);
Index: string.c
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvs/ruby/src/ruby/string.c,v
retrieving revision 1.156
diff -u -2 -p -r1.156 string.c
--- string.c	26 May 2003 08:22:28 -0000	1.156
+++ string.c	20 Jun 2003 10:29:32 -0000
@@ -3073,5 +3073,5 @@ rb_str_intern(str)
 
     if (!RSTRING(str)->ptr || RSTRING(str)->len == 0) {
-	rb_raise(rb_eArgError, "interning empty string");
+	rb_raise(rb_eArgError, "symbol string may not be empty");
     }
     if (strlen(RSTRING(str)->ptr) != RSTRING(str)->len)


-- 
Nobu Nakada