Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz / ruby-lang.org> wrote:
> In message "Re: Ruby stable branch is....1.9?"
>    on Fri, 4 Aug 2006 15:50:09 +0900, Stefan Scholl <stesch / no-spoon.de> writes:
> 
> |> That's not a bug, it's a feature! Ruby 1.9 is on the path to 2.0  
> |> which gets rid of the whole 1 byte == 1 character thing.
> |
> |I thought it's a 1 Fixnum == 1 character thing? :-)
> 
> We'd like to add encoding information to "characters".
> 
> |Well, this change will get really funny. There are many hidden
> |places where code relies on ?X giving a Fixnum. Including REXML.
> 
> We know.  But it's the last chance to introduce those incompatible
> changes.

You are to blame either way. With these changes you fuel the
conspiracy theories (new Ruby, new books). Without them, people
will compare Ruby developers with PHP developers who are afraid
of change. :-)


Regards,
Stefan

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