From: Jeremy Henty <onepoint@...>
Date: 2009-02-13T10:18:41+09:00
Subject: Re: If you are happy with the direction of Ruby 1.8.7+, respond

On 2009-02-12, James Coglan <jcoglan@googlemail.com> wrote:
> [Note:  parts of this message were removed to make it a legal post.]
>
> 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>:
>> > 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,
>> 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.

OK, I accept  your point for this particular  change.  It doesn't hold
for other changes, eg. methods returning Enumerators when they used to
return Arrays.

Regards,

Jeremy Henty