From: "Suraj N. Kurapati" <sunaku@...>
Date: 2008-05-28T06:04:56+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby 1.8.7-preview4 has been released

On May 25, 8:47�pm, "Akinori MUSHA" <k...@iDaemons.org> wrote:
> The new version of Ruby includes many bug fixes, lots of feature
> enhancements and some performance improvements since 1.8.6 while
> maintaining stability and backward compatibility with the previous
> release to a high degree, although there are ongoing efforts that need
> to be done toward adopting RubySpec.

Is the BasicObject class (from Ruby 1.9) planned to be back-ported to
Ruby 1.8.x?

Also, will OpenStruct derive from BasicObject?  So that we no longer
need to manually undef type and id to use those properties in our open
structs?

  require 'ostruct'

  class OpenStruct
    undef type if respond_to? :type # deprecated in Ruby 1.8; removed
in 1.9
    undef id   if respond_to? :id   # same thing
  end

Thanks for your consideration.