Hi, At Fri, 20 Feb 2009 19:17:10 +0900, Akinori MUSHA wrote in [ruby-core:22286]: > However, there needs some more work to retain the use of > colon in place of then/do, in order to keep backward > compatibility, although it has been deprecated and dropped in > 1.9. No such syntax has been defined officially. No backward compatibility issue. -- Nobu Nakada