From: Joseph <jlhurtado@...>
Date: 2006-09-19T07:41:17+09:00
Subject: Re: Why not a Ruby 1.8 to 2.x Code Convertor?

Hal,

Great news, whenever you guys DECIDE on it... thousands of developers
would actually be VERY grateful... the current and the new!

Jose Hurtado
Web Developer
Toronto, Canada

Hal Fulton wrote:
> 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