From: Avdi Grimm <avdi@...>
Date: 2008-08-08T23:04:45+09:00
Subject: Re: State of Ruby 1.8.6?

On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 11:55 PM, David Masover <ninja@slaphack.com> wrote:
> Well, given my example, the only possible conflict would be if someone else
> got it wrong. The point is to go for the very simple ones, get them right,
> and only apply them if they don't exist already.

Or if someone else got it *different*.  This is how 1.8.7 broke
Rails/ActiveSupport 2.0 - ActiveSupport already had a String#chars,
and 1.8.7 introduced an incompatible String#chars (it returns an
Enumerator instead of an Array).

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