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x.match?(/re/) on a boxed receiver took a String fast path for every receiver: String#match?, or a Symbol's over its name, and NoMethodError for anything else. A program class's own match? (tzinfo's zones and activesupport's Chars define one) was never reached:

class Zone
  def initialize(n) = @n = n
  def match?(re) = re.match?(@n) ? :hit : nil
end
def m(x) = x.match?(/ab/)
m(Zone.new("ab"))   # error: returning 'sp_bool' from a function with incompatible result type 'sp_RbVal'

Where it answers something other than a bool, the call was typed boxed while the fast path answered a raw bool, and the C did not compile.

The fast path now stands aside when a program class answers match? (poly_name_user_claimed), and the boxed dispatch, which has that arm and the String one, takes the call.

Test: test/boxed_match_user_method.rb.

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    • Corrected match? dispatch for polymorphic receivers using a regular expression literal. Calls now honor a matching method defined by a program class, while existing string and symbol matching behavior remains unchanged.

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Polymorphic calls to match? with a regexp literal now defer to boxed dispatch when a program class claims the method. A test covers String, Symbol, and custom Zone receivers.

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Boxed match? dispatch

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Dispatch and behavior validation
src/codegen_call_string.c, test/boxed_match_user_method.rb, test/boxed_match_user_method.rb.expected
When a program class claims match?, the regexp call path defers to later dispatch. The test checks results for strings, a symbol, and matching and nonmatching Zone instances.

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A user-defined match? can return a boolean instead of its actual value, so this dispatch behavior should be corrected before merging.

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`x.match?(/re/)` on a boxed receiver took a String fast path for every
receiver: String#match?, or a Symbol's over its name, and NoMethodError
for anything else. A program class's own match? (tzinfo's zones and
activesupport's Chars define one) was never reached. Where it answers
something other than a bool, the call was typed boxed while the fast
path answered a raw bool, and the C did not compile.

The fast path now stands aside when a program class answers match?
(poly_name_user_claimed), and the boxed dispatch, which has that arm
and the String one, takes the call.

Test: test/boxed_match_user_method.rb.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

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- Around line 215-217: Update the user-defined `match?` dispatch path identified
by `poly_name_user_claimed` so it preserves polymorphic return values such as
`:hit` and `nil` instead of converting them through the `sp_bool` union member.
Keep the existing boxed dispatch behavior for the built-in `match?` arms.

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Comment thread src/codegen_call_string.c
Comment on lines +215 to +217
/* ...unless a program class answers match? itself: the boxed dispatch
has its arm, and the String one beside it */
if (are >= 0 && sp_streq(name, "match?") && rpoly && poly_name_user_claimed(c, name, argc)) return 0;

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

🔎 Supported by static analysis

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sed -n '210,275p' src/codegen.c
sed -n '1125,1165p' src/codegen_poly_plan.c
rg -n 'TY_BOOL|poly.*bool|bool.*poly|SP_TAG_BOOL|unbox.*bool|as_bool' src

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set -eu
printf '%s\n' '--- bool trait and emitter ---'
nl -ba src/ty_traits.inc | sed -n '1,18p'
nl -ba src/codegen.c | sed -n '225,260p'
nl -ba src/codegen_poly_plan.c | sed -n '1135,1158p'
printf '%s\n' '--- runtime value representation and constructors ---'
rg -n -F -- 'typedef struct' src include 2>/dev/null | head -40 || true
rg -n -F -- 'sp_RbVal' src include 2>/dev/null | head -80 || true
rg -n -F -- 'sp_box_nil' src include 2>/dev/null | head -40 || true
rg -n -F -- 'sp_box_sym' src include 2>/dev/null | head -40 || true
rg -n -F -- 'SP_TAG_NIL' src include 2>/dev/null | head -40 || true
printf '%s\n' '--- focused inference and call path ---'
nl -ba src/analyze_infer.c | sed -n '5228,5242p'
nl -ba src/analyze_infer_recv.c | sed -n '1510,1525p'
nl -ba src/codegen_call.c | sed -n '7425,7450p'
printf '%s\n' '--- focused test ---'
nl -ba test/boxed_match_user_method.rb | sed -n '1,40p'
nl -ba test/boxed_match_user_method.rb.expected | sed -n '1,20p'

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set -eu
printf '%s\n' '--- candidate runtime headers ---'
rg --files -g '*.h' -g '*.c' | rg '(^|/)(include|runtime|vm|value|object|spinel|mruby|src)' | head -120
printf '%s\n' '--- exact value declarations and constructors ---'
rg -n -F -- 'struct sp_RbVal' . || true
rg -n -F -- 'typedef.*sp_RbVal' . || true
rg -n -F -- 'sp_box_bool' . || true
rg -n -F -- 'sp_box_sym' . || true
rg -n -F -- 'sp_box_nil' . || true
rg -n -F -- 'union {' . | head -80 || true
printf '%s\n' '--- unbox rationale and generated type names ---'
nl -ba src/codegen.c | sed -n '257,276p'
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Keep user-defined match? results polymorphic.

When a polymorphic receiver dispatches to a user-defined match? that returns :hit or nil, the user arm emits (<call>).v.b. This reads the sp_bool union member without checking the tag or converting the value. nil becomes false, and a Symbol’s payload is reinterpreted as a boolean. Neither value is preserved. The access is valid C; this conversion does not itself cause a compilation failure.

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Review comment at @src/codegen_call_string.c around lines 215 - 217:
Update the user-defined `match?` dispatch path identified by
`poly_name_user_claimed` so it preserves polymorphic return values such as
`:hit` and `nil` instead of converting them through the `sp_bool` union member.
Keep the existing boxed dispatch behavior for the built-in `match?` arms.

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amatsuda force-pushed the pr/boxed-match-user-method branch from 3c788c9 to 15819bd Compare October 5, 2026 07:08
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Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Thank you. This is on master (merged in 5e6087d). The head pushed afterwards is the same patch rebased, so GitHub does not show it as merged; there is nothing further to merge. Closing.

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