From: gabriele renzi <surrender_it@...1.vip.lng.yahoo.com>
Date: 2003-03-29T09:03:40+09:00
Subject: Re: 1.8 docs in progress?

il Fri, 28 Mar 2003 08:53:34 +0100, "C�dric Foll"
<cedric.foll@ac-rouen.fr> ha scritto::


>What are new  things from 1.6 you speak about ?
>Where can a get a list of new feature (not a huge chanlog please which
>doens't mean anything if u're not a Ruby developper).
>
>Regards.
>


dunno where such a list is, but I can tell you what I remember:

# disclaimer: everything can be wrong ^_^

- better I/O support on windows
- added StringIO class
- added Test::Unit to stdlib
- various method added/enhancement to stdlib (Pop,fileutils, http,
etc..)
- ability to create an Array passing it different objects, in 1.6 you
would just have different refernces to the same object or an ugly
workaround  ( if I'm correct: "Array.new {default}  ")
- mersenne twister instead of classical rand() algorithm

# things I think are going in, maybe already gone, 
# but absolutely not sure if they actually are:
- scanf
- generational gc
- synchronized :method (for easy threaded implementations a-la java)
- i +1 like i+1 (at the moment it's like i(+1)
- Module#define_method 


and general enhancements everywhere