From: "Hal E. Fulton" <hal9000@...>
Date: 2003-02-07T03:16:52+09:00
Subject: Re: %L, %l revisited

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Gavin Sinclair" <gsinclair@soyabean.com.au>
To: "ruby-talk ML" <ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org>
Sent: Thursday, February 06, 2003 11:53 AM
Subject: Re: %L, %l revisited


> On Friday, February 7, 2003, 3:55:05 AM, Hal wrote:
> 
> >> Hal,
> >>
> >> i thought Nobu already hacked out an initial HERE doc version.
> >> that's how all this got started.
> 
> > But he enhanced functionality without breaking
> > any existing functionality. It's the breakage
> > that I'm concerned with.
> 
> Have we come full circle?  You (and others) disliked Nobu's idea
> because it wasn't intuitive (although I love it).  Now you're singing
> the praises of it, albeit in only one respect, and compared with a
> specific proposal...

Hmm, I've lost my way in this (not especially interesting)
thread.

I don't think I ever commented on Nobu's idea at all. Offhand
I don't even remember its details.

But I am opposed to breaking existing functionality, and I
think Nobu was on the same side of that, whereas Tom was 
saying "nobody really uses that" in response to functionality
that's more than twenty years old.

But this has grown old. I'm glad Matz makes those decidions
instead of any of us, including myself.

Hal