Make String methods return String instances when called on a subclass instance

This modifies the following String methods to return String instances
instead of subclass instances:

* String#*
* String#capitalize
* String#center
* String#chomp
* String#chop
* String#delete
* String#delete_prefix
* String#delete_suffix
* String#downcase
* String#dump
* String#each/#each_line
* String#gsub
* String#ljust
* String#lstrip
* String#partition
* String#reverse
* String#rjust
* String#rpartition
* String#rstrip
* String#scrub
* String#slice!
* String#slice/#[]
* String#split
* String#squeeze
* String#strip
* String#sub
* String#succ/#next
* String#swapcase
* String#tr
* String#tr_s
* String#upcase

This also fixes a bug in String#swapcase where it would return the
receiver instead of a copy of the receiver if the receiver was the
empty string.

Some string methods were left to return subclass instances:

* String#+@
* String#-@

Both of these methods will return the receiver (subclass instance)
in some cases, so it is best to keep the returned class consistent.

Fixes [#10845]

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/test/ruby/test_string.rb b/test/ruby/test_string.rb
index 810c700c8c..4814872789 100644
--- a/test/ruby/test_string.rb
+++ b/test/ruby/test_string.rb
@@ -2089,6 +2089,8 @@ CODE
 
   def test_swapcase
     assert_equal(S("hi&LOW"), S("HI&low").swapcase)
+    s = S("")
+    assert_not_same(s, s.swapcase)
   end
 
   def test_swapcase!