On Mon, 20 Nov 2006, Eric Hodel wrote:

> On Nov 19, 2006, at 10:30 PM, Kornelius Kalnbach wrote:
> 
> > > What if we need to exceed 1.8.9?
> > I guess the XP people would say: Let's see if we really run into that
> > problem :) (and write more tests in the meanwhile.)
> > 
> > But the question is surely interesting. I vote for 1.8.10.
> > [murphy]
> 
> Not backwards compatible.
> 
> $ ruby -e 'p %w[1.8.1 1.8.2 1.8.9 1.8.10].sort'
> ["1.8.1", "1.8.10", "1.8.2", "1.8.9"]

That's why I was proposing that the feature be backported to 1.6 etc.
        Hugh
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