On Feb 18, 2008, at 4:33 AM, Martin Duerst wrote:

> This is a rough translation of the Japanese meeting summary
> (see [ruby-dev:33825]) by NARUSE, Yui.

Thank you for providing this.

> == Looking for a successor for cgi.rb
> Conditions are as follows:
> * different name than cgi.rb
> * using MVC separation

Was there any discussing of what's desired from the new version,  
beyond the new architecture?

Are there encoding issues with cgi.rb?  (I ask because of the meeting  
it was raised at.)

> == String#gsub(regexp, hash)
> Proposal to allow the following syntax:
>   String#gsub(regexp, {"ä"=>"\u00C4", ..})
> -> accepted

Can you explain how this works?

Does the Hash provide sequences of translations that are applied  
before the match?  Are they reversed after the match?

> == Introducing require_relative
> Proposal to add require_relative, require'ing a file relative to the
> file where it is used.
> -> accepted

This sounds nice.

James Edward Gray II