From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2003-01-03T02:09:38+09:00
Subject: Re: Compatibility (was Class.inherited)

Hi,

In message "Re: Compatibility (was Class.inherited)"
    on 03/01/03, Tom Sawyer <transami@transami.net> writes:

|whatever happened to the idea of a compatability module? i.e. by requiring a 
|special module 1.8 would act just like 1.6.8. and one could do it peicemeal 
|perhaps, which would make it easy to migrate.

We have 'shim' module which does completely opposite.  By using that
module you can use 1.8 behavior on 1.6.x.

							matz.