From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2002-07-12T00:28:16+09:00
Subject: Re: String#split converts string args to regexes -- ?

Hi,

In message "Re: String#split converts string args to regexes -- ?"
    on 02/07/11, Stepan Kasal <kasal@matsrv.math.cas.cz> writes:

|How would you like if a review of a new version of Ruby said this:
|
|	We experienced non-complete backward compatibility with this
|	version, at least.  Our old programs just stopped working, though
|	no error message appeared.  We traced this down to a
|	(mis-)behaviour of the split() function.   [...]
|	We recommend reviewing all your programs carefully before upgrading
|	Ruby, especially in a production environment.
|
|I know, similar reasoning applies to my solution (a-c with an error message),
|at least to an extent, because the error is detected in runtime, so it may
|last some time till the surprise appears.  But I think crashing programs
|is better then changing the semantics of old programs in a weird way.

You will be warned if you specify a string that contains regexp
metacharacters.  So you will not see silent behavior change without
notices.

							matz.