From: James Coglan <jcoglan@...>
Date: 2009-02-14T22:10:34+09:00
Subject: Re: If you are unhappy with the direction of Ruby 1.8.7+, respond

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> I don't know git, but if you tell me how, I can send you the two bug
> fixes and the working hash sequences. I'd suggest that you take a
> careful look at those sequences, whether they are as you want them to
> be, because they look really weird.



That would be wonderful, thank you. Just email patches to
jcoglan@googlemail.com, or send me an archive with all the working code if
diffs are a problem.

Seems I somehow gave the impression that I think my code is perfect and that
Ruby is broken. All I wanted to do was point out a change and ask for help
fixing my code. Shooting down assertions as untrue when they're based on
working code is not helpful. I realise it's easy to misappropriate the cause
of bugs sometimes but it's far more helpful to help the author investigate
the cause, rather than just telling them their examples are wrong and
questioning their knowledge. This list is usually in the friendly and
helpful end of the spectrum but this thread seems to have taken the tone
down a couple notches.

One final thing: someone mentioned that ordered hashes had been backported
to 1.8.7 but others disagree. Could someone from the core team settle this
one?

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