From: Gerald Bauer <geraldbauer2007@...>
Date: 2008-08-12T15:43:35+09:00
Subject: Ruby 1.9: What to Expect by Sam Ruby @ OSCON 2008 Slide Deck Adapted S6/S9 (Single-Web Page) Version

Hello,

  I've created a S6/S9 version of Sam Ruby's OSCON 2008 slide deck
titled "Ruby 1.9: What to Expect (What's Changed? What's New?)" that
offers a single-web page version that in addition to offering a
full-screen slide show is easy-to-print for offline reading. (S6/S9
Tip: Use the t-key to toggle between outline and slide show view.)

  Topics covered in Sam Ruby's slide show include:

  == What's Changed?

  * Single Character Strings
  * String Index
  * {"a","b"} No Longer Supported
  * Array.to_s Now Contains Punctuation
  * Colon No Longer Valid In When Statements
  * Block Variables Now Shadow Local Variables
  * Hash.index Deprecated
  * Fixnum.to_sym Now Gone
  * Hash Keys Now Unordered
  * Stricter Unicode Regular Expressions
  * tr and Regexp Now Understand Unicode
  * pack and unpack
  * BasicObject More Brutal Than BlankSlate
  * Delegation Changes
  * Use of $KCODE Produces Warnings
  * instance_methods Now an Array of Symbols
  * Source File Encoding

  == What's New?

  * Alternate Syntax for Symbol as Hash Keys
  * Block Local Variables
  * Inject Methods
  * to_enum
  * No block? Enum!
  * Lambda Shorthand
  * Complex Numbers
  * Decimal Is Still Not The Default
  * Regex "Properties"
  * Splat in Middle
  * Fibers
  * Break Values
  * "Nested" Methods


  More @ http://slideshow.rubyforge.org/ruby19.html

  Cheers.

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Gerald Bauer - Internet Professional - http://rubybook.ca