From: Tony Arcieri <tony@...>
Date: 2009-02-16T12:55:23+09:00
Subject: Re: If you are happy with the direction of Ruby 1.8.7+, respond

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On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 10:12 AM, Gregory Brown
<gregory.t.brown@gmail.com>wrote:

> This one is for those who wish that Ruby 1.8 would go *back* to being
> 1.8.6 compatible in Ruby 1.8.8.   If you agree with this, share your
> thoughts or at least a simple '+1'.  If you disagree, please find the
> other thread titled 'If you are happy with the direction of Ruby
> 1.8.7, respond'.  If you are in the middle, I don't know what you
> should do... write two posts?
>

If you ask me, what the Pythonistas got right that Ruby 1.8.7+ does not is:

  from __future__ import x

I think it's great that Ruby 1.8.7+ wants to include all these nifty 1.9
features.  But, I don't think they should be "on" by default.

I think it'd be great if certain features (e.g. the 1.9.x enumerators) were
available if you were to, say, require "future/enumerator" or something.

If that were the case, I'd be on board with backporting everything, although
changes to the grammar of the language itself might be difficult to enable
in this manner, and many bring backwards compatibility issues.

-- 
Tony Arcieri

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