From: Chauk-Mean Proum <redmine@...>
Date: 2010-11-27T23:48:51+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:33430] [Ruby 1.9-Feature#4085] Refinements and nested methods

Issue #4085 has been updated by Chauk-Mean Proum.


Hi Matz,

>For specifying namespace, "using" is used in many languages, C++, C#
>etc.  On the other hand, as far as I know, no language use the keyword
>"use" for namespaces, but for other purposes.  For example, Perl6's
>"use" is to mix-in traits, just like Ruby's "include".
>
>So, from language designers' view, "using" is not that strange.

'using' is not strange in itself.
It's just that it is not "in line with other names such as `include', `extend', etc." as other people said.
You're Ruby's grand master, the decision is definitively yours. 

Chauk-Mean.

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