[ruby-talk:02785] Re: Array.pop and documentation [was: Appen d alias for Array.append?]

Conrad,
>    slice_low
>    slice_low(n)
>    slice_high
>    slice_high(n)
>    slice(n,m)
>where low and high refer to the end of the array with lowest and highest
>array index, 

I don't know about 'low' and 'high' (maybe start and end, or bottom and top
or,...) but the idea sounds ok.

>it would still have to wait for Ruby 3000

Why?

First, I think we can implement (at least for these) 'include Ruby3000'.

And then I think we can just divide the proposed version number by about
1764.7055 and target these changes to 1.7 and stable release 1.8. Before
that we could note at the release at 1.6 that all these things (and many
more) might change in the future.

The people who want to stick with the old code, not change a line, can do
so. They just stick with the old interpreters too. If they want to
incorporate the patches from newer versions, they're able to do that through
- oh, what a beautiful world this is - Open Source.

	- Aleksi