From: Trans <transfire@...>
Date: 2006-10-26T23:10:17+09:00
Subject: Re: 1.9 Backport?


Austin Ziegler wrote:
> 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.

Right. I realize. I was just hoping that a few significant features
that are pure "superset" could make it back.

T.