[#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: Wilson Bilkovich <wilsonb@...>
Date: 2005-12-18 21:45:57 UTC
List: ruby-core #6944
> Hi,
>
> In message "Re: Time.utc! and Time.localtime!"
>     on Fri, 16 Dec 2005 00:56:21 +0900, ara.t.howard@noaa.gov writes:
>
> |   class Time
> |     alias_method "__utc__", "utc"
> |     alias_method "utc!", "__utc__"
> |     def utc *a, &b
> |       warn "#utc method will change - use #utc! for self modifying behaviour!"
> |       __utc__ *a, &b
> |     end
> |   end
> |
> |an some time might be enough to make the transition.
>
> I don't think this is good for transition, just because new code would
> still get complained.
>

What about #to_utc for the non-destructive version, and possibly a
warning on #utc if that is going to change in the future?

--Wilson.

(P.S. I had to use the mget command to get this message into my mail
system, so hopefully I haven't broken the threads for anyone.)


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