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alindeman

"".constantize returns Object

Reported by alindeman | February 14th, 2011 @ 10:06 PM

Not 100% sure if this should be considered a bug, but I found it a bit unexpected and it masked a bug in a project I was working:

ruby-1.9.2-p136 :001 > "".constantize
 => Object 
ruby-1.9.2-p136 :003 > "".constantize == ::Object
 => true

I expected an error, as if I had done:

ruby-1.9.2-p136 :008 > Object.const_get("")
NameError: wrong constant name

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