From: Charles Oliver Nutter <charles.nutter@...>
Date: 2007-11-09T12:41:50+09:00
Subject: Re: JRuby/Ruby top-level classes? (Fwd: Metaclasses)

Giles Bowkett wrote:
>>>> So I think you are using 1.8.x
>>> Not me, it came from a poster on the list. But I take it your point is
>> Oh, sorry.
> 
> np.
> 
>>> that the behavior was legacy behavior. Thanks!
>> My point was there was no data for which platform and version.
>> 1.9 is still the development release.  Anyway, I've been able to
>> reproduce the problem, at least.
> 
> OK. I only wanted to determine whether there was any discrepancy
> between the two projects, and it looks like they're properly in sync
> (insofar as JRuby targets 1.9 instead of 1.8.x for compatibility).
> Thanks for helping me out.

We don't intentionally target 1.9, but this and a few other cases (e.g. 
local_variables showing all variables initialized or uninitialized) 
demonstrate that we're not going out of our way to support 1.8 semantics 
where 1.9 is arguably more correct.

We still consider JRuby to be far more 1.8-compatible than 1.9-compatible.

- Charlie