From: ts <decoux@...>
Date: 2001-08-07T01:12:07+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:19227] Re: Some remarks from a nembie in Ruby

>>>>> "R" == Renaud HEBERT <renaud.hebert@alcatel.fr> writes:

R> For example, for point 10, the change to octal notation could be managed
R> in the following way:
R> add 0o notation and the "old" 010 notation keep the same meaning but
R> generates a warning as obsolete (that the way Java evolves).

 And if this is a script running as a daemon, it fill the error log with
warnings. And if nobody take care, it can crash the computer
 (disk full) :-))) 

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

 Personnaly I find strange that it's always the beginners which want change
completely a language :-))


Guy Decoux