From: Gregory Brown Date: 2007-07-01T01:37:18+09:00 Subject: Re: is it bug? for On 6/30/07, Axel Etzold wrote: > So the confusion is about etiquette rather than content. It's also about content. Introducing new behaviour for a removed method that doesn't reflect its history is confusing. It means that code which used String#to_a on Ruby 1.8 would not immediately throw an error on 1.9 with your change, but rather would just behave incorrectly. I would much rather see a compatible monkeypatch, if it is needed at all. So really, what you suggested is a bad idea. That's what I was trying to say. If the OP wanted that kind of behaviour, it shouldn't be called to_a.