From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2004-01-13T01:11:05+09:00
Subject: Re: Unixisms (Re: [PATCH] File.readable_world? and File.writable_world?)

Hi,

In message "Unixisms (Re: [PATCH] File.readable_world? and File.writable_world?)"
    on 04/01/12, David Garamond <lists@zara.6.isreserved.com> writes:

|Funny that yesterday I was reading some comments on Slashdot about 
|Ruby's slant towards Unixism and against Unicode integration (especially 
|compared to Python). Even Perl doesn't have a -w for world fields :-)

I'm not against Unicode, I just refused to be Unicode "centric".

About Unixism, I think we need a working model that is understandable,
reasonable, and portable for class library design.  I chose UNIX way.

							matz.