From: Devin Mullins <twifkak@...>
Date: 2006-09-18T04:00:02+09:00
Subject: Re: the future of Ruby

Francis Cianfrocca wrote:
> On the other hand, Ruby (like
> Java) now produces major revs so infrequently that it's not a terribly
> large problem. For all ends and intents, I consider Ruby to be a
> stable language.
Also, once you find an incompatibility, you can write code that works in 
both versions. Simple example from Rails:
   unless defined? instance_exec # 1.9
     def instance_exec(*arguments, &block)
       block.bind(self)[*arguments]
     end
   end
(Runtime #ifdef, if you will.) So you shouldn't need to maintain 
multiple versions of the code.

Devin