From: Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@...>
Date: 2005-12-15T17:21:37+09:00
Subject: Re: Time.utc! and Time.localtime!

Hi,

In message "Re: Time.utc! and Time.localtime!"
    on Thu, 15 Dec 2005 17:16:16 +0900, Kev Jackson <kevin.jackson@it.fts-vn.com> writes:

|>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.

|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

Adding two new methods is OK.  Even removing methods is OK too.  But
changing "utc" behavior like this is problematic, since the
interpreter cannot tell which "utc" programmers want to use.

							matz.