From: waheed.barghouthi@... Date: 2019-04-07T14:00:34+00:00 Subject: [ruby-core:92176] [Ruby trunk Feature#15743] RubyVM should be renamed to CRuby Issue #15743 has been updated by waheedi (Waheed Barghouthi). Backport deleted (2.4: UNKNOWN, 2.5: UNKNOWN, 2.6: UNKNOWN) ruby -v deleted (ruby 2.6.2p47 (2019-03-13 revision 67232) [x86_64-linux]) Tracker changed from Bug to Feature Eregon (Benoit Daloze) wrote: > I made a PR on GitHub to discuss the proposed documentation changes, please take a look and review: > https://github.com/ruby/ruby/pull/2113 @Eregon, I do believe there is a sense in what you are trying to do, but what makes more sense to me is that Matz Ruby was named "Ruby". You can still clear out the confusion without prepending any letters to Ruby, I believe adding a note like the ones you added "This class is MRI specific as it exposes implementation details" would be sufficient to resolve any confusion. I changed this from a bug to a feature. ---------------------------------------- Feature #15743: RubyVM should be renamed to CRuby https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/15743#change-77505 * Author: Eregon (Benoit Daloze) * Status: Open * Priority: Normal * Assignee: * Target version: Next Major ---------------------------------------- My understanding is that `RubyVM` is supposed to only exist on MRI/CRuby, and not on any other Ruby implementation. In fact, almost all features under `RubyVM` are not realistically implementable on other major Ruby implementations (JRuby, TruffleRuby, Rubinius). Unfortunately, the name doesn't reflect that it is specific to CRuby, e.g., JRuby/TruffleRuby/Rubinius are also "Ruby VMs". And as a result it is not clear for many Ruby users that RubyVM is CRuby-specific. The documentation is also unclear: ``` The RubyVM module provides some access to Ruby internals. This module is for very limited purposes, such as debugging, prototyping, and research. Normal users must not use it. ``` So I propose to rename RubyVM to CRuby. That way, it is clear for everyone that this module is CRuby-specific. It's also consistent with the JRuby module, the TruffleRuby module and the Rubinius module. Proposed migration path: * Introduce CRuby as an alias of RubyVM on `trunk`, and deprecate the RubyVM constant on `trunk` (for 2.7). * Remove `RubyVM` in Ruby 3.0. What do you think? cc @ko1 @k0kubun @headius -- https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/ Unsubscribe: