From: Austin Ziegler <halostatue@...>
Date: 2006-10-26T22:02:38+09:00
Subject: Re: 1.9 Backport?

On 10/26/06, Trans <transfire@gmail.com> wrote:
> Reading:
>   http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2006/10/26/rubyconf-2006-recap/
> If Ruby 1.9+ won't be released for over a year, can we backport a few
> features? Most noteabley #instance_exec and the ability of a block to
> take a &block argument --the lack of these exact a heavy toll on good
> clean metacode.

Probably not. Ruby 1.8 is supposed to be *stable*, and I doubt that
there'll be a shim like there was for Ruby 1.6 to 1.8, either.

> Also, is it true RCRchive is to be no more?

No. Take a look at my blog; RCRchive is going to change focus into
probably being a starting point for discussion, but *how* such entries
are processed will probably change from the current software to
something else that allows for mailing-list discussions.

-austin
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