On May 27, 2008, at 1:32 PM, David Flanagan wrote:

> I think you misunderstand me, James.  I'm suggesting that we debate  
> the removal of -> from 1.9 but that we hold off on debating any  
> replacements for -> (such as the fn keyword or Eric's bare blocks)  
> and save that design discussion for 2.0.  That is, maybe -> gets  
> removed from 1.9, but that nothing gets added to 1.9 in its place.

I'm happy to let Matz do whatever it is Matz does--I don't feel he  
needs us telling him how to manage his releases on top of us telling  
him how to design his language :)


Dabe