Hi -- On Mon, 11 Dec 2006, James Edward Gray II wrote: > On Dec 10, 2006, at 9:12 AM, dblack / wobblini.net wrote: > >> Hi -- >> >> On Mon, 11 Dec 2006, Jeremy McAnally wrote: >> >>> They are working on an official Ruby spec and testing suite. >> >> Official, or formal? (I've been in favor of both for a long time -- >> just wondering which this is.) > > Well it was discussed at the Ruby Implementors Summit where Matz was present > and I hear Matz himself has contributed to the effort, for what that's worth. Cool. I know that in the past Matz has indicated that he'd be willing to entertain a spec, possibly officially, but wasn't interested in writing one. Various people have expressed interest in writing one, and then just not found the time or momentum. (At least one various person I can think of :-) So this sounds like the right thing at the right time. > We should remember though that the spec is for Ruby 1.8. Ruby 1.9 does not > have one and Matz doesn't want to build one for it yet, as I understand it. I guess it's not worth it for a development version. Hopefully the 1.8 work will be adaptable fairly easily to 2.0. David -- David A. Black | dblack / wobblini.net Author of "Ruby for Rails" [1] | Ruby/Rails training & consultancy [3] DABlog (DAB's Weblog) [2] | Co-director, Ruby Central, Inc. [4] [1] http://www.manning.com/black | [3] http://www.rubypowerandlight.com [2] http://dablog.rubypal.com | [4] http://www.rubycentral.org