Re: [ruby-cvs:18323] ruby: * eval.c (splat_value): use "to_splat" instead of "to_ary" to

On 10/8/06, [e-mail] <[e-mail]> wrote:
> Hi --
>
> On Sun, 8 Oct 2006, Yukihiro Matsumoto wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > In message "Re: [ruby-cvs:18323] ruby: * eval.c (splat_value): use "to_splat" instead of "to_ary" to"
> >    on Sun, 8 Oct 2006 14:05:30 +0900, Mathieu Bouchard <[e-mail]> writes:
> >
> > |> Could you explain how to_splat be bad?
> > |
> > |It makes one more thing to remember about Ruby 1.9, which is a bigger
> > |language than Ruby 1.8, which is a bigger language than Ruby 1.6. You
> > |don't have to compete with Perl 6, and you don't even have to compare Ruby
> > |2 to Perl 6 thinking how much simpler Ruby 2 is.
> >
> > Every language grows in more recent version, as Ruby does, and PL/I
> > did, until it grows too much to collapse into a black hole by its own
> > gravity.  It's kind a like destiny.  Otherwise the language will die.
> >
> > For people who don't like growing languages, the current 1.8 was
> > forked off from the development line (or perhaps, 1.9 was forked off
> > from the stable line).  They will be happy using "stable" Ruby.
>
> I think you should trust yourself more :-)  Growing doesn't have to
> mean growing in size.  Think of all those Ruby programs that get
> *smaller* -- and more expressive -- as one works on them....

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---John