[#6864] ruby 1.8.4 rc breaks alias_method/rails in bad ways — "Ara.T.Howard" <ara.t.howard@...>

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[#6870] Re: ruby 1.8.4 rc breaks alias_method/rails in bad ways — =?ISO-8859-15?Q?Florian_Gro=DF?= <florgro@...> 2005/12/12

Ara.T.Howard wrote:

[#6872] Re: ruby 1.8.4 rc breaks alias_method/rails in bad ways — ara.t.howard@... 2005/12/12

On Tue, 13 Dec 2005, [ISO-8859-15] Florian Growrote:

[#6873] Re: ruby 1.8.4 rc breaks alias_method/rails in bad ways — James Edward Gray II <james@...> 2005/12/12

On Dec 12, 2005, at 1:19 PM, ara.t.howard@noaa.gov wrote:

[#6874] Re: ruby 1.8.4 rc breaks alias_method/rails in bad ways — ara.t.howard@... 2005/12/12

On Tue, 13 Dec 2005, James Edward Gray II wrote:

[#6891] Time.utc! and Time.localtime! — Daniel Hobe <hobe@...>

Writing a script yesterday I found out, much to my surprise, that the

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[#6918] change to yaml in 1.8.4 — ara.t.howard@...

14 messages 2005/12/16

[#6934] 1.8.x, YAML, and release management — Ryan Davis <ryand-ruby@...>

I'm concerned that 1.8.3's acceptance of non-backwards-compatible

28 messages 2005/12/18

[#6996] Problems building 1.8.4 with VS8 C++ Express Edition (cl 14.00) — Austin Ziegler <halostatue@...>

Visual Studio C++ 2005 Express Edition (VS 8.0)

20 messages 2005/12/27

Re: Time.utc! and Time.localtime!

From: Kev Jackson <kevin.jackson@...>
Date: 2005-12-15 08:16:16 UTC
List: ruby-core #6903
>Hmm, usually I don't respond to mails saying "un-rubyish" or "POLS",
>but this time I agree with that "utc" and "getutc" combination is more
>un-rubyish than "utc" and "utc!".  But I'm not sure if we can fix it
>for compatibility reason.
>
>							matz.
>  
>
Could you not keep the old methods for bwc and add new more 'ruby-ish' 
methods as well?  (or aliases if it's in ruby code rather than in C)

Not looked deeply into this at all, but I would have thought that adding 
a method that simply refers back to the original method, but is more 
nicely named shouldn't be too hard

please slap me if I'm wrong here

Kev

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