From: Serabe <serabe@...>
Date: 2009-02-12T07:31:33+09:00
Subject: Re: If you are unhappy with the direction of Ruby 1.8.7+, respond

2009/2/11 Rick DeNatale <rick.denatale@gmail.com>:

> True, although the real issue is that there is code which runs on 1.8.6 and
> doesn't run 'correctly' on 1.8.7.
>
> The real problem is when the semantics have changed, and this breaks
> frameworks and gems and such.

But this is because the former was consider a bug or for another
reason? For example, (taken from
http://svn.ruby-lang.org/repos/ruby/tags/v1_8_7/NEWS )

* Date.parse

    '##.##.##' (where each '#' is a digit) is now taken as 'YY.MM.DD'
    instead of 'MM.DD.YY'.  While the change may confuse you, you can
    always use Date.strptime() when you know what you are dealing
    with.

Looks like a really strange change to me. In fact, it confuses me. Ok,
I know I can use Date.strptime when I know what I'm dealing with, but
I still don't get the point.

Someone can enlighten me, please?

Regards,

Serabe

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