From: ronald braswell <rpbraswell@...>
Date: 2007-08-04T02:13:22+09:00
Subject: Re: #send in 1.9


>From: Yossef Mendelssohn <ymendel@pobox.com>
>Reply-To: ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org
>To: ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org (ruby-talk ML)
>Subject: Re: #send in 1.9
>Date: Sat, 4 Aug 2007 00:18:36 +0900
>
>On Aug 2, 4:10 pm, "ronald braswell" <rpbrasw...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> > Will there be a compatability flag to allow1.9to act like 1.8 for cases 
>in
> > which backwards compatability was broken?  That way you could take 
>advantage
> > of new features w/o having to rewrite an existing codebase all at once.
> >
> > Ron
>
>That way lies the Perl path.
>
>Don't get me wrong. I came to Ruby from Perl and I enjoyed it just
>fine, but I'm much happier with Ruby. There are some things I don't
>entirely agree with, but some of those are changing with 1.9. They're
>changing to be better, which leads to breaking some code that depends
>on the old behavior. Backwards compatibility is nice, but it's not so
>important that you hobble progress.
>
>--
>-yossef
>
>

Thanks, Yossef.

Ron

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