From: Austin Ziegler <austin@...>
Date: 2003-12-18T12:39:53+09:00
Subject: Re: Yukihiro - Please ensure backwards compatibility

On Thu, 18 Dec 2003 11:01:56 +0900, Joseph Benik wrote:
> i don't understand the need to nitpick the regexp in this case, if
> someone passes a string it seems quite a simple task for you to _ENSURE
> BACKWARDS COMPATIBILITY_ and convert it internally to a regexp

This is a deprecation warning. It will no longer be backwards compatible in 
1.9 and later, IIRC (maybe as early as 1.8.1).

In 1.8.0, however, it's just a warning.

-austin
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