From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2003-11-19T02:44:29+09:00
Subject: Re: Again, Rite explanation needed  (keyword args and new hash syntax)

Hi,

In message "Re: Again, Rite explanation needed  (keyword args and new hash syntax)"
    on 03/11/18, gabriele renzi <surrender_it@rc1.vip.ukl.yahoo.com> writes:

|>And you would not break any existent programs, e.g.
|>
|>  f(line=gets, ...)
|>  puts line 
|>
|>would still work.
|
|well, we're breaking existing stuff anyway (block vars, class vars,
|constant lookup) taht's the point in a major release :)

Just trade off.  I thought we don't need to break compatibility here.

							matz.