From: Joel VanderWerf <vjoel@...>
Date: 2009-02-12T14:28:03+09:00
Subject: Re: If you are unhappy with the direction of Ruby 1.8.7+, respond

Bill Kelly wrote:
> 
> From: "Rick DeNatale" <rick.denatale@gmail.com>
>>
>> As I remember it, Matz didn't want to have a version number like 1.8.10
> 
> For what it's worth, my recollection is that matz wasn't
> _conceptually_ opposed to it, but rather it was not considered
> acceptable to break the existing code in the field which performed
> version checks based on string compares:
> 
>>> "1.8.9" > "1.8.8"
> => true
> 
>>> "1.8.10" > "1.8.9"
> => false

I remember that... did anyone ever suggest other number bases?

irb(main):001:0> "1.8.9" > "1.8.8"
=> true
irb(main):002:0> "1.8.A" > "1.8.8"
=> true

Nah, too weird!

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