From: Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@...>
Date: 2005-06-07T16:50:58+09:00
Subject: Re: $VERBOSE breaks code?

Hi,

In message "Re: $VERBOSE breaks code?"
    on Mon, 30 May 2005 18:05:24 +0900, "Zev Blut" <rubyzbibd@ubit.com> writes:

|>     irb(main):001:0> $VERBOSE=1
|>     => 1
|>     irb(main):002:0> "%s" % ["abc", "def"]
|>     ArgumentError: too many arguments for format string
|>             from (irb):2:in `%'
|>             from (irb):2
|>
|> Should $VERBOSE really break code?  Perhaps this should be rb_warn?
|> (sprintf.c:778)
|
|Was there any resolution to this issue?  I ask, because my colleagues and
|I just encountered this same problem.  I looked into the CVS history, but
|did not find anything related to this.

Ryan's opinion (and yours) is reasonable.  I will fix so that

  -d will raise ArgumentError exception.
  -v/-w will warn. (CVS HEAD)

Thank you.

							matz.