From: Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@...>
Date: 2008-04-04T17:37:41+09:00
Subject: Re: RUBY_IMPLEMENTATION

Hi,

In message "Re: RUBY_IMPLEMENTATION"
    on Fri, 4 Apr 2008 12:06:20 +0900, Urabe Shyouhei <shyouhei@ruby-lang.org> writes:

|> Probably we need to introduce a new constant to represent
|> the implementation of the running VM.

|No I don't think that's a bright idea.  We need A WRITTEN SPECIFICATION 
|instead.

Of course, a WRITTEN SPECIFICATION is a good thing to have.  But the
cost is not comparable to adding a single constant.  Besides that,
adding a constant would not spoil developers from accomplishing
compatibility.

							matz.