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-rw-r--r--object.c10
2 files changed, 12 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 78c0cb61d5..ffd6755121 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+Sat Mar 3 16:09:27 2007 Akinori MUSHA <knu@iDaemons.org>
+
+ * object.c (rb_obj_ivar_set): RDoc updated according to a
+ suggestion from Brian Candler <B.Candler AT pobox.com>.
+ [ruby-core:10469]
+
Sat Mar 3 15:41:33 2007 Nobuyoshi Nakada <nobu@ruby-lang.org>
* parse.y (stmt, arg): should not omit lhs of OP_ASGN1 even if
diff --git a/object.c b/object.c
index 3719817d8c..706455713c 100644
--- a/object.c
+++ b/object.c
@@ -1966,10 +1966,12 @@ rb_obj_public_methods(argc, argv, obj)
/*
* call-seq:
* obj.instance_variable_get(symbol) => obj
- *
- * Returns the value of the given instance variable (or throws a
- * <code>NameError</code> exception). The <code>@</code> part of the
- * variable name should be included for regular instance variables
+ *
+ * Returns the value of the given instance variable, or nil if the
+ * instance variable is not set. The <code>@</code> part of the
+ * variable name should be included for regular instance
+ * variables. Throws a <code>NameError</code> exception if the
+ * supplied symbol is not valid as an instance variable name.
*
* class Fred
* def initialize(p1, p2)