From: Daniel DeLorme <dan-ml@...42.com>
Date: 2009-05-14T15:08:02+09:00
Subject: Re: [bikeshed] Syntactic sugar idea

Gregory Brown wrote:
> On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 12:16 AM, Daniel DeLorme <dan-ml@dan42.com> wrote:
>> Well, you never know... Matz *did* add the Symbol#to_proc conversion in
>> 1.9 and also the foo\n.bar "fluent interface" syntax. So apparently
>> trivial changes *do* make their way into core... sometimes.
> 
> But Symbol#to_proc is not a parser change. It's just using an existing
> hook that has been around in Ruby 1.8

But the fluent interface change *is* a parser change. My point was just 
that seemingly trivial requests *can* make it into the core, whether 
they're a syntax change or not.

-Daniel