From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2001-09-21T06:38:07+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:21468] Re: what is a Ruby implementation?

Hi,

In message "[ruby-talk:21446] what is a Ruby implementation?"
    on 01/09/21, David Alan Black <dblack@candle.superlink.net> writes:

|What exactly qualifies as an implementation of Ruby?  I assume that it must be a
|drop-in replacement for some existing, specific version of Ruby.  If not, it
|seems to me to be more a Ruby-like language than a Ruby interpreter.
|
|I guess I'm re-raising the question of some kind of formal language
|description.  Or is version-identification and conformity sufficient?

I call a interpreter/compiler Ruby if its author intends to follow
mine, the Ruby.

							matz.