From: Issac Trotts <ITrotts@...>
Date: 2001-12-13T16:31:33+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:28395] Re: The maddening output of Arrays

Wow, I didn't know Ruby had been around that long.
I only heard about it this year.  

Maybe there should be something about the array
surprise on the FAQ.  If there is, I missed it.

Issac

> -----Original Message-----
> From: matz@ruby-lang.org [mailto:matz@ruby-lang.org]
> Sent: Wednesday, December 12, 2001 11:56 PM
> To: ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org
> Subject: [ruby-talk:28391] Re: The maddening output of Arrays
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> In message "[ruby-talk:28388] The maddening output of Arrays"
>     on 01/12/13, Issac Trotts <ITrotts@IdolMinds.com> writes:
> 
> |May I be so bold as to propose changing this
> |surprising behavior while Ruby is still young 
> |and not tied to a mammoth legacy code base?
> 
> We are open to proposals.
> 
> But I have to say: Ruby has been out there for more than 6 years.
> It's a long time for a software, isn't it?  Ruby is older than Java.
> 
> Back to the original issue, recently I changed the Array#to_s behavior
> (not in a way you proposed, but anyway), and it caused many problems
> so that I restored old bahavior.  So I guess this proposal might be
> sort of hard one.
> 
> 							matz.
>