From: Renaud HEBERT <renaud.hebert@...>
Date: 2001-08-07T01:04:48+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:19226] Re: Some remarks from a nembie in Ruby

ts wrote:
> 
> >>>>> "R" == Renaud HEBERT <renaud.hebert@alcatel.fr> writes:
> 
> R> So people what do you think about point 6) 10) and especially 20) ?
> 
>  You break how many scripts with these changes ?
> 
> Guy Decoux

I don't break any scripts: it depends of the way the change are managed
in Ruby.
For example, for point 10, the change to octal notation could be managed
in the following way:
add 0o notation and the "old" 010 notation keep the same meaning but
generates a warning as obsolete (that the way Java evolves).
After a reasonnable period 010 will now be 10 "by default".
The "new comportment" can be activated with a "future" switch (like
Python does).

I understand your point, but I also think that no language is perfect,
so it has to evolve..

While the point 10 may not be important enough to warrant such a change,
I still do think that the point 20) is important: maybe adding
additional methods getps and getpline (with p for portability) which
gives only the line and not the end-of-line would be enough if the
documentation explains the portability risk of gets and getline..

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Renaud Hebert
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