From: "David A. Black" Date: 2009-01-16T00:51:50+09:00 Subject: Re: 10 things to be aware of in 1.8 -> 1.9 transition Hi -- On Fri, 16 Jan 2009, Michael Fellinger wrote: > On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 3:40 AM, David A. Black wrote: >> Hi -- >> >> I know it's not usual to announce blog posts here, but I'm going to >> indulge the impulse as the content of this one is something I might >> have posted here anyway: >> >> http://dablog.rubypal.com/2009/1/14/10-things-to-be-aware-of-in-moving-to-ruby-1-9 >> >> I'm finishing up "The Well-Grounded Rubyist" and am thinking of >> writing an appendix with more or less this content, so I thought I'd >> run it up the flagpole first. > > You might also want to mention (around the point of block-parameters > have def syntax) that procs can take a block now. > The Enumerator stuff is in 1.8.7 already, not sure if it's that > notable. Maybe some things instead about String (#each, Enumerable, > [0], ?a, ...) would be more helpful. I'm not really dealing with 1.8.7 in my book (nor much in general). [0] is a good idea. I do mention in my list that strings aren't enumerable any more. David -- David A. Black / Ruby Power and Light, LLC Ruby/Rails consulting & training: http://www.rubypal.com Coming in 2009: The Well-Grounded Rubyist (http://manning.com/black2) http://www.wishsight.com => Independent, social wishlist management!