From: Ryan Davis <ryand-ruby@...>
Date: 2009-09-30T19:05:01+09:00
Subject: Re: How do I use nitpick


On Sep 29, 2009, at 21:40 , Michael W. Ryder wrote:

> So my options are:
>  1.  Downgrade to 1.8.7

yes, that should work.

>  2.  Somehow patch ParseTree to work with 1.9 which seems to be a    
> f		      feature request for over a year now.

can't happen, as john pointed out.

>  3.  Patch nitpick to work with ruby_parser

this would probably work fine, but I don't know nitpick so I can only  
guess that it is a static-only analysis tool.

>  4.  Forget about using any kind of lint program with Ruby.

not much gray in your world, is there? :P

> Personally I do not like any of the above.  I can understand  
> programs written for version 1.8.7 not working with 1.8.4, but not  
> programs written for 1.8.7 not working for 1.9.1.  Whatever happened  
> to backwards compatibility?

1.9.x does not (nor did it ever intend to) maintain backwards  
compatibility with 1.8. Lots of stuff went in 1.9, that's what  
progress is for.

See also: perl 4 to perl 5, perl 5 to perl 6, deprecations across java  
versions, industrial revolution, ponies.