From: Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@...>
Date: 2007-09-17T23:59:54+09:00
Subject: Re: Unicode

Hi,

In message "Re: Unicode"
    on Mon, 17 Sep 2007 22:50:12 +0900, Todd Burch <promos@burchwoodusa.com> writes:

|Lotsa luck getting something like Unicode implemented when the 
|underlying C contructs are using such an outdated syntax as ruby's does.

Old K&R style has nothing related to Unicode support of the language.
If you think it does, please elaborate.

It just reflects the history of the language.  When I started
developing Ruby, old Sun CC compiler does not understand new style,
and I wanted Ruby to run on that platform, which I was using then.

For your information, the next release (1.9) finally abandoned the old
style.

							matz.