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

20 messages 2005/12/09
[#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

16 messages 2005/12/14

[#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: dblack@...
Date: 2005-12-18 04:12:28 UTC
List: ruby-core #6935
Hi --

On Sun, 18 Dec 2005, Florian Growrote:

> Yukihiro Matsumoto wrote:
>
>> 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.
>
> But is breaking compatibility in 2.0 really this much of an issue?

I thought it wasn't, as per Matz's talk at RubyConf 2003, where he
said 2.0 was going to break things anyway so it was best to do it all
at once.

Is it possible there's a misunderstanding about where/when this change
is being proposed for?


David

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