From: Akinori MUSHA <knu@...>
Date: 2008-05-29T23:52:18+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby 1.8.7-preview4 has been released

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At Wed, 28 May 2008 06:04:56 +0900,
Suraj N. Kurapati wrote:
> 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.
>=20
> Is the BasicObject class (from Ruby 1.9) planned to be back-ported to
> Ruby 1.8.x?

I'm afraid it is a bit too radical to change class hierarchy (or
topology, rather) in the middle of 1.8.  It would break certain kinds
of development tools and runtime environment (IDE/RAD tools,
Squeak-like environment, etc.).

> 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?
>=20
>   require 'ostruct'
>=20
>   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

It would be better to undefine methods with common names individually.
Losing object_id, class, dup, freeze, taint, etc. is overkill I would
think.

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Akinori MUSHA / http://akinori.org/

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