From: "Eregon (Benoit Daloze) via ruby-core" <ruby-core@...>
Date: 2025-05-10T12:20:37+00:00
Subject: [ruby-core:121985] [Ruby Bug#21322] Namespaces and builtin classes as arguments and return values

Issue #21322 has been updated by Eregon (Benoit Daloze).


Right, IOW it's the duality between builtin classes and other classes.
Builtin classes' constants, methods, ivar and cvars are all a copy per Namespace (and so potentially differ), even though for all builtin classes they are `equal?` with the corresponding builtin class in all namespaces.

I think that's part of what makes the semantics of Namespace complicated, but as I understand it's also part of the design of Namespace.

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Bug #21322: Namespaces and builtin classes as arguments and return values
https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/21322#change-113101

* Author: fxn (Xavier Noria)
* Status: Open
* Backport: 3.2: UNKNOWN, 3.3: UNKNOWN, 3.4: UNKNOWN
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@tagomoris thanks for the docs under `doc/namespace.md`.

Unless I missed it, I believe there is an edge case related to builtin classes (using the vocabulary there). Consider:

```ruby
# test.rb
ns = Namespace.new
ns.require_relative 'foo'

X = 1
ns::C.x(Object)

# foo.rb
class C
  def self.x(obj)
    obj::X
  end
end
```

`obj::X` raises. I believe this is consistent with the feature, but maybe would deserve docs, because from the point of view of the Ruby programmer I am passing an object, no constant name resolution is happening in `foo.rb`. See what I mean?

I believe, from my tests, that something analogous happens if `ns::C.x` returns (the namespaced) `Object`. In the main namespace, you don't get the object passed up as-is.

I am also curious about how is this implemented (maybe to comment here, not necessarily in the docs).



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