From: James Coglan <jcoglan@...>
Date: 2009-02-13T00:59:08+09:00
Subject: Re: If you are happy with the direction of Ruby 1.8.7+, respond

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2009/2/12 Jeremy Henty <onepoint@starurchin.org>

> On 2009-02-11, Pit Capitain <pit.capitain@gmail.com> wrote:
> > 2009/2/11 Rados?aw Bu?at <radek.bulat@gmail.com>:
> >> h={}
> >> h[{"foo" => 1}] = 100
> >> p h[{"foo" => 1}]
> >>
> >> ruby 1.8.6 prints "nil", 1.8.7 prints "100".
> >
> > Ah, you mean  Hash#hash. Thanks a lot, I didn't  know that. But this
> > is an example where the  1.8.7 version yields the result most people
> > would expect,
>
> No  it doesn't.   Most people  would expect  1.8.7 to  yield  the same
> result as 1.8.6 .  That is the point.



Though I fall on the 'unhappy' side, this change is clearly fine: 1.8.6
behaviour is clearly a bug and should be fixed, that's the point of bug fix
releases. Relying on buggy behaviour is a bad idea, and so is making changes
to ostensibly correct behaviour in minor releases.

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