ruby-dev summary 20941-21133

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TAKAHASHI Masayoshi

Hello all,

This is a summary of ruby-dev ML last week.


[ruby-dev:20954] ruby 1.8.0 preview5
[ruby-dev:21039] ruby 1.8.0 preview6
[ruby-list:38015] [ANN] ruby 1.8.0

As you have already known, ruby 1.8.0 was released, after
many previews. Congratulations!


[ruby-dev:20949] multiple Tk interpreter support

Hidetoshi NAGAI announced that he added and modified
some files to ruby CVS tree for Tk module to support
multiple Tk interpreters. You can use this feature
in Ruby 1.8.0.


[ruby-dev:20957] [BigDecimal] conflict between Numeric#div and BigDecimal#div
[ruby-dev:21062] [BigDecimal] Proposal for temporal omission

Tadashi Saito pointed out that Numeric#div and BigDecimal#div
have different semantics. He proposed to change the name of
BigDecimal#div. There were many responses of this proposal,
but we could not reach any conclusion. In 1.8.0, BigDecimal#div
is left as it is.
Tadashi Saito thought BigDecimal was not mature enough to
add into standard distribution, so he also proposed that
BigDecimal should be polished before added to distribution.
Shigeo Kobayashi, the author of BigDecimal, and Matz agreed
that there were some differences between BigDecimal and other
Numeric classes. But we have less experience and knowledge
to solve the problem, so we must use BigDecimal and Numeric
class more and brush up Ruby Numeric System.


[ruby-dev:20961] $stdin (Re: ruby 1.8.0 preview5)

Kazuhiro Yoshida asked what methods are needed to the object
which is assigned to $stdin. Matz replied that the methods
(which ARGV calls internally) are as follows:

gets, readline, readlines, getc, readchar, tell, seek,
pos=, rewind, fileno, to_io, eof, each_line, each_byte,
binmode, closed?


[ruby-dev:21034] Rational released

Shin-ichiro HARA released Rational library in C. He wants
to add this library to standard distribution in future.



Regards,

TAKAHASHI 'Maki' Masayoshi E-mail: (e-mail address removed)
 

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