From: Hal Fulton <hal9000@...>
Date: 2003-10-01T10:20:53+09:00
Subject: Re: Article on ARTIMA

Lothar Scholz wrote:
> And another thing is very important and should really be done if ruby
> wants to escape the hacker world:
> 
> A Formal description of the language (you know the "language lawyer"
> section of the python documentation). JRuby and Ruby are not the same
> in some details and this is the result of the lack of specification.

This interests me. David Alan Black and I have discussed it more
than once.

But I'm not sure Matz likes the idea of a formal language spec. Or
perhaps he would say the spec already exists, and it is written
in C.

Matz? What would you think of a formal spec as long as 1) the content
was OK'd by you and 2) you didn't have to write it?

Hal