From: Mauricio Fernandez <mfp@...>
Date: 2006-04-05T06:31:26+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby Weekly News 27th March - 2nd April 2006

On Tue, Apr 04, 2006 at 07:33:48PM +0900, Tim Sutherland wrote:
> http://www.rubyweeklynews.org/20060402.html
> 
> Ruby Weekly News 27th March - 2nd April 2006
[...]
>   ruby-dev summary 28274-28600
>   ----------------------------
> 
>    Furuhashi Apuri summarised the Japanese mailing list ruby-dev, which had
>    ideas around regexp named captures, __method__ to hold the name of the
>    currently executing method, and a proposal for multi-method support.
> 
>    The latter would allow you to write
[...]
>    The String or Integer or ... is just anything that has an === method.
>    "Matz said he agrees and this can be committed to 1.9 if it is fast
>    implementation."

As I said under that thread, I think this (proposal for multi-method support)
is yet another April 1st joke. I'm subscribed to ruby-dev and the message
referred to in in that summary ([ruby-dev:28533]) doesn't exist: indeed, the
last message is [ruby-dev:28505] as of Wed, 5 Apr 2006 03:30:04 +0900.

Maybe it would be better to clarify that for the record.

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