From: Stefan Scholl <stesch@...>
Date: 2006-08-04T15:50:09+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby stable branch is....1.9?

Logan Capaldo <logancapaldo@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Aug 3, 2006, at 9:40 PM, Daniel Berger wrote:
>> On an unrelated note, I think I discovered a bug in 1.9:
>> ?q => 'q' # should be 113, right?
>>
> That's not a bug, it's a feature! Ruby 1.9 is on the path to 2.0  
> which gets rid of the whole 1 byte == 1 character thing.

I thought it's a 1 Fixnum == 1 character thing? :-)


Well, this change will get really funny. There are many hidden
places where code relies on ?X giving a Fixnum. Including REXML.


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