From: David Garamond <lists@...6.isreserved.com>
Date: 2004-07-10T01:48:10+09:00
Subject: Re: speeding ruby development

gabriele renzi wrote:
> I have some bad feelings towards ruby2, mainly because the language
> will expand in ways I don't like like @_vars,

I don't like this either.

> named parameters not
> equal to positional ones 

I have mixed feelings about this. But you can always use positional or 
hash, ala Ruby 1.8.

> and changes in block variable handling.

Personally I prefer this. I predict this will save me hours of debugging 
time in the future.

> But I prefer to accept ideas from more wise people, in the end thay
> gave me this wonderful language :)

Don't worry. matz so far has been very good with design decisions for 
Ruby. :-)

> Some of the changes will appear in the upcoming 1.9 release, some
> things will get deprecated and so on, to allow a safer transition.
>  And rite is *years* in the future, just like Python3000 or perl6.

Isn't Python3k going to be a new _language_ generation (as is Perl6)? 
Rite is an implementation for Ruby2, and surely the amount/degree of 
changes between Ruby 1.8 -> Ruby2 vs Python2.x -> Python3K or Perl5 -> 
Perl6 is much less (again, thanks to the matz' good designs).

Please, Rite, arrive soon[er] :-)

-- 
dave