From: Ged Byrne <gedb01@...>
Date: 2003-08-18T22:22:23+09:00
Subject: Re: @@newimpl and @newimpl in Net

Thanks all for your patience.

So this allows old and new implementations to be run
side by side.

I see now that setImplVersion is called in HTTP.new.

Again, thanks.


 --- ts <decoux@moulon.inra.fr> wrote: > >>>>> "G" ==
=?iso-8859-1?q?Ged=20Byrne?= 
> <iso-8859-1> writes:
> 
> G> Could anybody explain how this is working?
> 
>  This is this case
> 
>    require 'net/http'
>    a = Net::HTTP.start('www.ruby-lang.org', 80) #
> new version
>    Net::HTTP.version_1_1
>    b = Net::HTTP.start('www.ruby-lang.org', 80) #
> old version
> 
> 
>  Net::HTTP.version_1_1 has modified @@newimpl, but
> the instance variable
>  @newimpl for `a' was not modified
> 
>  `a' will work with the new implementation
>  `b' will work with the old implementation
> 
> 
> 
> Guy Decoux
> 
>  

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