[#15707] Schedule for the 1.8.7 release — "Akinori MUSHA" <knu@...>

Hi, developers,

21 messages 2008/03/01

[#15740] Copy-on-write friendly garbage collector — Hongli Lai <hongli@...99.net>

Hi.

31 messages 2008/03/03
[#15742] Re: Copy-on-write friendly garbage collector — Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@...> 2008/03/03

Hi,

[#15829] Re: Copy-on-write friendly garbage collector — Daniel DeLorme <dan-ml@...42.com> 2008/03/08

Yukihiro Matsumoto wrote:

[#15756] embedding Ruby 1.9.0 inside pthread — "Suraj Kurapati" <sunaku@...>

Hello,

18 messages 2008/03/03
[#15759] Re: embedding Ruby 1.9.0 inside pthread — Nobuyoshi Nakada <nobu@...> 2008/03/04

Hi,

[#15760] Re: embedding Ruby 1.9.0 inside pthread — Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@...> 2008/03/04

Hi,

[#15762] Re: embedding Ruby 1.9.0 inside pthread — "Suraj N. Kurapati" <sunaku@...> 2008/03/04

Yukihiro Matsumoto wrote:

[#15783] Adding startup and shutdown to Test::Unit — Daniel Berger <Daniel.Berger@...>

Hi all,

15 messages 2008/03/04

[#15835] TimeoutError in core, timeouts for ConditionVariable#wait — MenTaLguY <mental@...>

I've been reworking JRuby's stdlib to improve performance and fix

10 messages 2008/03/09

[#15990] Recent changes in Range#step behavior — "Vladimir Sizikov" <vsizikov@...>

Hi,

35 messages 2008/03/23
[#15991] Re: Recent changes in Range#step behavior — Dave Thomas <dave@...> 2008/03/23

[#15993] Re: Recent changes in Range#step behavior — "Vladimir Sizikov" <vsizikov@...> 2008/03/23

Hi Dave,

[#15997] Re: Recent changes in Range#step behavior — Dave Thomas <dave@...> 2008/03/23

[#16024] Re: Recent changes in Range#step behavior — "Vladimir Sizikov" <vsizikov@...> 2008/03/26

Hi Dave,

[#16025] Re: Recent changes in Range#step behavior — Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@...> 2008/03/26

Hi,

[#16026] Re: Recent changes in Range#step behavior — Dave Thomas <dave@...> 2008/03/26

[#16027] Re: Recent changes in Range#step behavior — Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@...> 2008/03/26

Hi,

[#16029] Re: Recent changes in Range#step behavior — Dave Thomas <dave@...> 2008/03/26

[#16030] Re: Recent changes in Range#step behavior — Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@...> 2008/03/26

Hi,

[#16031] Re: Recent changes in Range#step behavior — Dave Thomas <dave@...> 2008/03/26

[#16032] Re: Recent changes in Range#step behavior — "Vladimir Sizikov" <vsizikov@...> 2008/03/26

On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 7:01 PM, Dave Thomas <dave@pragprog.com> wrote:

[#16033] Re: Recent changes in Range#step behavior — Dave Thomas <dave@...> 2008/03/26

[#16041] Re: Recent changes in Range#step behavior — David Flanagan <david@...> 2008/03/26

Dave Thomas wrote:

Re: Recent changes in Range#step behavior

From: Charles Oliver Nutter <charles.nutter@...>
Date: 2008-03-23 16:13:38 UTC
List: ruby-core #15992
Dave Thomas wrote:
> 
> On Mar 23, 2008, at 9:56 AM, Vladimir Sizikov wrote:
> 
>> (Btw, this whole behaviour of using the argument not as a step, but as
>> an increment, is completely unspecified in the docs).
> 
> I can certainly fix that in the PickAxe, but I'm not sure what the 
> difference between a step and an increment is. Is it that an increment 
> is integral?

More importantly, who is tracking such changes? Those of us implementing 
Ruby and many others using it would probably like to know when these 
things change.

I would strongly suggest that at least for the 1.8 branch that the core 
1.8 maintainers start contributing to and running the rubyspecs 
(currently hosted in Rubinius's repository) and actively tracking 
behavioral changes between releases. And if the 1.9 group would like to 
start writing specs for 1.9 behavior, all the better.

It's time to start formalizing this process a bit, methinks.

- Charlie

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