John Backus

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I'm not sure based on this stack trace what is happening. Could you share your spec helper possibly?

That is interesting. I wont be able to investigate for a while so if you could find a minimal reproduction then that would be pretty helpful.

My interest in this mutation was to help detect cases where code testing a certain regexp only provides test cases where the input string contains exactly what the regular expression...

Realistically, until these support something like `# mutest:disable NegateReceiver` they should just be rewritten to use the same code path as [`ignore_subjects`](https://github.com/backus/mutest/blob/53ca9f6affa1b4a41b0c6b98ad5f1e1ef9852386/lib/mutest/matcher/compiler.rb#L36-L45)

@mbj I would be happy to PR a fix for this if you would agree this should be fixed. I realize you eventually want `protected` by default like in #24...

This sort of sounds like an anti-feature. Could you give an example of why you need to check if a class is abstract?

> this is memorabilia, @github never answered us nor anyone... when we write the history of shaddy this will be exbit A Just wanted to say thanks @xaiki for adding...

@kbrock `#fetch` makes more sense there over `#[]` if the key is guaranteed to be present. I think that supersedes the style aspect. Also FYI this PR is not an...

Are we talking generically about greedy vs. non-greedy matching here or specifically with respect to the use of the dot? The two regular expressions in question parse like so: ```...

@tjchambers thanks this is a helpful note since the way `module_function` copies methods isn't obvious. Would you be able to share more information about how this test looks? Testing the...