Re: [1.9] Proc#curry

On Friday 15 February 2008, Yukihiro Matsumoto wrote:
>     on Fri, 15 Feb 2008 14:24:33 +0900, David Flanagan 
<[e-mail]> writes:
> |I'd like to ask, however, what the rationale is for adding this fairly
> |major new piece of API after 1.9.0.  I could see this going into the 2.0
> |development branch, when it opens, but do we need it in 1.9?  (I ask
> |this, obviously, as someone who has just written and published a book
> |covering Ruby 1.9--I'd really like the 1.9 API to stay stable!)
>
> I consider this method (Proc#curry) to be trivial and should be
> treated like an Easter egg for functional programming kids.

Actually, you didn't refute David's implied assertion that the 1.9 API must be 
stable, and this makes me nervous.  

Isn't Ruby 1.9's API -- by definition -- unstable?  If we can't make API 
changes in the unstable branches, where can we make them?  This is a fairly 
important piece of information that developers have to know, and if I've been 
making the wrong assumption, I'd like to know.

Thanks.

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