From: "lyle@..." <lyle@...>
Date: 2003-05-15T00:27:13+09:00
Subject: Re: ANSI

> I think that the whole of Ruby should move to ANSI. I don't know of any
> non-ANSI compiler on any platform right now.

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> In any case I can't see any practical reason for that. The ANSI style is
> more concise, more direct.

The lack of ANSI C prototypes in the public header files has also presented
problems in the past when compiling C++ code that wants to call Ruby's C API
functions. I think that most or all of these declarations have been cleaned
up in the 1.7/1.8 series, but it would be nice if this were just standard
policy.