From: "Berger, Daniel" <Daniel.Berger@...>
Date: 2006-04-05T06:34:01+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby Weekly News 27th March - 2nd April 2006

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mauricio Julio Fern�ndez Pradier 
> [mailto:ferferse@telefonica.net] On Behalf Of Mauricio Fernandez
> Sent: Tuesday, April 04, 2006 3:31 PM
> To: ruby-talk ML
> 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.
> 
> -- 
> Mauricio Fernandez  -   http://eigenclass.org   -  singular Ruby

All in favor of banning April 1st humor on this mailing list forever say, "Aye!".

AYE!!!

Dan