Nobuyoshi Nakada wrote: > 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. What do you mean here in "official"? because AFAIK there has been no single line of official syntax definitions so far.