From: khaines@...
Date: 2006-09-18T02:00:44+09:00
Subject: Re: the future of Ruby

On Mon, 18 Sep 2006, James Edward Gray II wrote:

> On Sep 17, 2006, at 5:43 AM, Joan Iglesias wrote:
>
>> if you have a look to the language modification between 1.6 and 1.8,
>> there are some.
>
> I've tried several 1.6 scripts in 1.8 and never had to change a single one. 
> Maybe they didn't use the altered parts of the language, but all-in-all I 
> think it was a pretty compatible release.

Long ago, when 1.8.0 was released, I recall having to make a few changes 
to IOWA for it to run under 1.8.0.  The effort was modest.  I don't 
remember the details; all I remember is that I only had to change a few 
lines; it took minutes, and when I was done, in that case, the code ran on 
both 1.8.x and 1.6.8.  Since then, I have had no issues on any of the 
1.8.x releases.  The compatibility issue seems to me to be a very minor 
one.


Kirk Haines