From: Brian Candler <b.candler@...>
Date: 2010-02-09T05:12:16+09:00
Subject: Re: Why Ruby?

Seebs wrote:
> Or is there something else in the new String that you don't like?

It's as complex as hell. I took the trouble to document about 200 
behaviours of String in 1.9, and I still haven't really scratched the 
surface. http://github.com/candlerb/string19/blob/master/string19.rb

The scariest bit for me is that a simple expression like

    a = b + c

(where b and c are both Strings) can raise exceptions. Writing your 
program so that you can be *sure* it won't raise an exception is hard. 
Even the same program running on two different computers with the same 
version of ruby 1.9 and the same input data may crash on one but not on 
the other.

I don't want to have to expend effort working around artefacts of the 
language, especially when dealing with binary data.
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