From: Luis Lavena <luislavena@...>
Date: 2008-03-31T13:20:10+09:00
Subject: Re: porting Shoes to Ruby1.9 is fun, and illustrates how Ruby emerged 	"named optional arguments"

On Mar 31, 1:14 am, "Phlip" <phlip2...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Someone replied:
>
> > FAIK, PLATFORM is there since a long ago (1.8.6 and 1.8.5 have it).
>
> > I just used to look for RUBY_PLATFORM ;-)
>
> PLATFORM ain't there no more - good riddance. Everything in Ruby about Ruby
> should start with rb or RUBY_. "Registered Package Prefix."
>

Was Google groups and keyboard shortcuts fault! ;-)

Nice I've been using RUBY_PLATFORM since long time ago :-D

> > Yeah, great things for 1.9 and Shoes!
>
> > I only wish Shoes can be used without being a "wrap" around the
> > interpreter and can be usable as a extension.
>
> > But I know _why is creating Shows for HacketyHack, so I will not
> > scream for it (too much) :-D
>
> But that's just the thing. Ruby makes extensions so danged easy that you can
> probably just jump into whatever main() calls, and rb_require the shoes.rb
> wrappers in...
>

Yeah, creating extensions isn't complex, but can get tricky manage the
resources and memory allocation... :-P

Anyway, just a wish, don't have enough time to do it right now :-D

Regards,
--
Luis Lavena