From: Rick DeNatale <rick.denatale@...>
Date: 2009-12-31T00:29:50+09:00
Subject: Re: Using #include at the instance level?

On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 4:34 AM, Robert Klemme
<shortcutter@googlemail.com> wrote:

> To sum it up: Ruby 1.9 changed lookup rules from lexical (aka static)
> to dynamic.

That change may not be permanent.

There was a long thread on ruby-core a month or two ago, prompted by a
question raised by Yehuda Katz about the problems the change was
causing for existing DSLs like ActiveRecord and RSpec.   After various
proposals to modify the 1.9 behavior to make it more compatible,
Maeda-san posted this:

http://osdir.com/ml/ruby-core/2009-12/msg00001.html

Matz seems to be in favor of returning to the 1.8 behavior.

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