From: William James <w_a_x_man@...>
Date: 2009-02-13T14:58:38+09:00
Subject: Re: If you are unhappy with the direction of Ruby 1.8.7+, respond

David A. Black wrote:

> On Fri, 13 Feb 2009, David A. Black wrote:
> 
> > Much, much more has been said about the issues involved in the
> > recent version policy than that it's bad to introduce any new
> > methods in teeny versions (and that, as far as I can see, has not
> > been said).
> 
> A followup to this:
> 
> I think there are two important points to keep in mind. First, it's a
> matter of degree, not kind. In other words, no one is saying that
> 1.8.7 should be indistinguishable from 1.8.6. It's more the quantity
> of change that's at issue. Here's a very crude metric, showing the
> results of instance_methods(false) for various classes and modules
> across three 1.8 versions:
> 
> 1.8.2
> String: 83
> Array: 71
> Hash: 45
> Range: 15
> Enumerable: 22
> 
> 1.8.6
> String: 83
> Array: 71
> Hash: 45
> Range: 15
> Enumerable: 22
> 
> 1.8.7
> String: 91
> Array: 83
> Hash: 47
> Range: 15
> Enumerable: 43
> 
> (Gotta love Range :-)

No, I don't.  I enjoy having new methods, so long as the behavior of
the old methods is "exempt from mutation".