>Hmm, usually I don't respond to mails saying "un-rubyish" or "POLS",
>but this time I agree with that "utc" and "getutc" combination is more
>un-rubyish than "utc" and "utc!".  But I'm not sure if we can fix it
>for compatibility reason.
>
>							matz.
>  
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Could you not keep the old methods for bwc and add new more 'ruby-ish' 
methods as well?  (or aliases if it's in ruby code rather than in C)

Not looked deeply into this at all, but I would have thought that adding 
a method that simply refers back to the original method, but is more 
nicely named shouldn't be too hard

please slap me if I'm wrong here

Kev