From: RK Sentinel <sentinel.2001@...>
Date: 2009-01-17T21:14:38+09:00
Subject: Re: Son of 10 things! (1.8 to 1.9 transition)

David A. Black wrote:
> Hi --
> 
> On Sat, 17 Jan 2009, RK Sentinel wrote:
> 
>>
>> and I hope to keep the rework to a minimum when porting to 1.9. He
>> checked out and confirmed it _does_ return a Fixnum in 1.9.
>>
>> (i.e, ?\C-a or ?\M-a etc.)
>>
>> So apparently that was wrong information.
> 
> I believe so:
> 
> $ irb19
> irb(main):001:0> ?a
> => "a"
> irb(main):002:0> RUBY_DESCRIPTION
> => "ruby 1.9.1 (2008-12-30 patchlevel-0 revision 21203)
> [i386-darwin9.5.0]"
> 
> 
>> One piece of feedback:
>>
>> David, when you say "In 1.8, X == 1  and now in 1.9, X == 2 " it would
>> help us if you would say what we should now do to get the earlier
>> result.
> 
> Do you mean the block examples? The semantics are so different that
> it's hard to discuss it in terms of emulating 1.8 behavior. For
> example:
> 

No, the x example I mentioned was just an example. I meant more like the 
fact that:

str[0] no longer gives a Fixnum. So now the reader is wondering: how do 
i get my Fixnum.

The case of the ":" is okay - just remove it.

Thanks, Sent.
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