[#11439] comments needed for Random class — "NAKAMURA, Hiroshi" <nakahiro@...>

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15 messages 2007/06/12

[#11450] Re: new method dispatch rule (matz' proposal) — David Flanagan <david@...>

This is a late response to the very long thread that started back in

17 messages 2007/06/13

[#11482] Ruby Changes Its Mind About Non-Word Characters — James Edward Gray II <james@...>

Does this look like a bug to anyone else?

10 messages 2007/06/16

[#11505] Question about the patchlevel release cycle — Sylvain Joyeux <sylvain.joyeux@...4x.org>

1.8.6 thread support was broken in bad ways. It stayed for three months

20 messages 2007/06/20
[#11512] Re: Question about the patchlevel release cycle — Urabe Shyouhei <shyouhei@...> 2007/06/20

Hi, I'm the 1.8.6 branch manager.

[#11543] Re: Apple reportedly to ship with ruby 1.8.6-p36 unless informed what to patch — James Edward Gray II <james@...>

On Jun 27, 2007, at 4:47 PM, Bill Kelly wrote:

10 messages 2007/06/27

Re: Ruby Changes Its Mind About Non-Word Characters

From: "Vincent Isambart" <vincent.isambart@...>
Date: 2007-06-17 10:25:57 UTC
List: ruby-core #11497
> Yes it is not a good thing but think that this is not so simple,
> knowing if a Unicode character is a letter or not requires a better
> regexp engine, including tables with the attributes of all Unicode
> characters. But for that you will need to use ruby 1.9. Tim Bray had
> reasons to say that Unicode support in ruby 1.8 sucked. And Matz knows
> it, that's what ruby 1.9 will be better on this point.

And by the way, you do not need to wait if you want to play a little bit:
% ruby-1.9  <<< 'p "ecodeサ" =~ /\brecode\b/' -KU
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