From: Phlip Date: 2009-02-13T05:03:40+09:00 Subject: Re: If you are unhappy with the direction of Ruby 1.8.7+, respond Stefan Lang wrote: >>> Important is backwards compatibility and Ruby 1.8.7 >>> is backwards compatible. Nobody so far has shown >>> where 1.8.7 is not backwards compatible. >> require 'rubynode' > > From http://rubynode.rubyforge.org/: > "RubyNode is a library that allows read only access to Ruby's > internal NODE structure." > > It's cool that such libraries exist, but AFAIK MRI's > internal AST is not part of its public API, much > less part of Ruby 1.8, the language. So if Ruby 1.8.7 had broken RubyInline, that would be okay?