From: Yukihiro Matsumoto Date: 2005-08-08T16:58:17+09:00 Subject: Re: new block notation (was: Re: ruby-dev summary 26468-26661) Hi, In message "Re: new block notation (was: Re: ruby-dev summary 26468-26661)" on Sun, 7 Aug 2005 02:53:06 +0900, Florian Gro� writes: |Should be okay as long as it isn't used as a method name. The 1.9 () on |local variables change was undone after all, right? Right. But adding a new reserved word makes all programs using that word as a local variable invalid. matz.