From: Hal Fulton <hal9000@...>
Date: 2006-09-19T07:29:24+09:00
Subject: Re: Why not a Ruby 1.8 to 2.x Code Convertor?

Joseph wrote:
> Having read the long discussion on the advantages and disadvantages of
> language evolution, I have to agree with the original poster.
> 
> If there is significant change in the language, yes there will be a
> cost to upgrade the source code to the new standards.
> 
> So why shouldn't the Ruby community create the same tool the Perl
> community is apparently working on:  an automatic CODE CONVERTOR or
> "upgrader" from 1.8 to 2.x?

[snip]

We may in fact do something like this. No one has ruled it out.
The fact is that 2.0 is still an indefinite amount of time in the
future.


Hal