On Wed, Nov 26, 2003 at 07:38:13PM +0100, Stefan Scholl wrote:
> Who wants to use such a language? I don't want to rewrite my code
> every few months.

You don't have to.  Ruby has evolved relatively slowly, and
*incompatible* changes such as this one have been few and far
between.  This one hasn't been made yet, you'll notice, and there
will probably be a long period where the current behavior still
works but generates a warning.  I wouldn't be surprised if the
final change were left out until Ruby 2.0 - and a major revision number
change means you're allowed to break things. :)

-Mark