comp.lang.ruby

Todd Burch

9/17/2007 3:51:00 PM

Yukihiro Matsumoto wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Old K&R style has nothing related to Unicode support of the language.
> If you think it does, please elaborate.
>
> It just reflects the history of the language. When I started
> developing Ruby, old Sun CC compiler does not understand new style,
> and I wanted Ruby to run on that platform, which I was using then.
>
> For your information, the next release (1.9) finally abandoned the old
> style.
>
> matz.

Thanks Matz.

I'm new to C programming, but not new to programming. Therefore, my
assumption (yes, assumption) was that using whatever compiler swithes
were necessary to accept the old-style syntax would obviate the
opportunity to bring in "modern" libraries with unicode support, and/or
prohibit those aspects of the language that would enable the use of
unicode features.

So, apparently, since they ("they" being unicode support and the
syntax/compiler switches) are not related, and that's great.

By the way, as an aside, I really like the language you developed and
have made available. I primarily use Ruby with SketchUp (a 3D modeling
program - http://www.sk...) for extending the functionality of
the product. (SketchUp has a Ruby API) I was looking at the source to
see what it would take to implement a debugger than would work with Ruby
while running under SketchUp. I would like to step through expression
evaluation as the script runs.

(Big aspirations for a new C programmer like myself!)

Todd
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