From: Logan Capaldo <logancapaldo@...>
Date: 2006-07-04T14:16:45+09:00
Subject: Re: About 1.9 #__method__ feature.


On Jul 4, 2006, at 1:07 AM, Yukihiro Matsumoto wrote:

> I am not yet sure how much preferable adding 1.9 methods to the stable
> version.  Since it is mere addition, it should not cause much
> problems, but increasing number of methods may be considered as being
> "unstable" for the stable version.  Any idea?
>
> 							matz.

Doesn't this depend on how it's added? What if we stole a page from  
python's book?

file future.rb:

module Kernel
   alias invoke_method __send__
end


require 'future'
obj = SomeClass.new
obj.invoke_method(...)

You could also have an empty future.rb in the stdlib of 1.9. Then  
people who try to write 1.8 in a 1.9 style could use their scripts  
under either version (well as far as stuff that could be backported  
for "getting into the habit" purposes, like invoke_method).

Just a thought.