ruby-changes:3213
From: ko1@a...
Date: 25 Dec 2007 23:20:02 +0900
Subject: [ruby-changes:3213] matz - Ruby:r14707 (trunk): * doc/NEWS: changes for 1.9
matz 2007-12-25 23:19:55 +0900 (Tue, 25 Dec 2007)
New Revision: 14707
Modified files:
trunk/doc/NEWS
Log:
* doc/NEWS: changes for 1.9
http://svn.ruby-lang.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/trunk/doc/NEWS?r1=14707&r2=14706
Index: doc/NEWS
===================================================================
--- doc/NEWS (revision 14706)
+++ doc/NEWS (revision 14707)
@@ -1,837 +1,207 @@
-= command line options
+Changes for 1.9
-: -W option
+Incompatible (Severe)
- new option to specify warning level. -W0 to shut up warnings, -W1 for normal level,
- -W2 for verbose level. -w equals to -W2.
+ * New syntax and semantics
+ o Block arguments are always local
+ o Block arguments
+ o New semantics for block arguments
+ o Block local variables
+ * String
+ o No longer an Enumerable
+ o ?c semantics
+ o "One-char-wide" semantics for String#[] and String#[]= [Ruby2]
+ o Encoding-awareness
+ * IO operations
+ o IO#getc
-= language syntax
+Incompatible (Trivial)
-: arbitrary delimited string array
+ * New syntax and semantics
+ o Method used for splat arguments: #to_splat
+ o defined? and local variables
+ * Kernel and Object
+ o Kernel#require
+ * Class and Module
+ o Class variables behavior
+ o Module#attr is an alias of attr_reader
+ o Module#instance_methods, #private_instance_methods, #public_instance_methods
+ o Extra subclassing check when binding UnboundMethods
+ * Exceptions
+ o Equality of exceptions
+ o SystemStackError
+ o SecurityError
+ o Removed Exception#to_str [Ruby2]
+ * Array
+ o Array#nitems
+ o Array#[m,n] = nil places nil in the array.
+ * Hash
+ o Hash#to_s is equivalent to Hash#inspect
+ o Semantics for Hash#each and Hash#each_pair
+ o Hash#select
+ * Integer
+ o Integer(nil) raises TypeError
+ * Struct
+ o Struct#inspect
+ * File and Dir operations
+ o #to_path in File.path, File.chmod, File.lchmod, File.chown, File.lchown, File.utime, File.unlink... [Ruby2]
+ o Dir.[], Dir.glob
+ o Dir.exist?
+ * IO operations
+ o Non-blocking IO
+ o IO#getbyte, IO#readbyte, StringIO#getbyte, StringIO#readbyte
+ o Kernel#open takes encoding specified
+ o IO#initialize now accepts an IO argument
+ o StringIO#readpartial
+ o IO#lines
+ o IO#bytes
+ o IO.try_convert
+ o Limit input in IO#gets, IO#readline, IO#readlines, IO#each_line, IO#lines, IO.foreach, IO.readlines, StringIO#gets, StringIO#readline, StringIO#each, StringIO#readlines
+ o IO#ungetc, StringIO#ungetc
+ o IO#internal_encoding, IO#external_encoding, IO#set_encoding
+ o IO.pipe takes encoding option
+ * Time
+ o New format in Time#to_s
+ o Timezone information preserved on Marshal.dump/load
+ * Symbols: restriction on literal symbols
+ * $SAFE and bound methods
+ * Deprecation
+ o VERSION and friends
+ o Kernel.to_a
+ o Kernel#getc
+ o Object#type
+ o Hash#index
+ o ENV.index
+ o Symbol#to_int
+ o Removed Array and Hash #indices, #indexes
+ o libraries: base64, mailread, getopts, parsearg, soap, wsdl
- %W(...) notation, word list literal like %w(...) with the
- exception that #{} interpolation is allowed.
+Compatible
-: arbitrary delimited symbol literl
+ * New syntax and semantics
+ o New literal hash syntax
+ o New syntax for lambdas
+ o .() and calling Procs without #call/#[]
+ o Mandatory arguments after optional arguments allowed
+ o Multiple splats allowed
+ o Arguments to #[]
+ o printf-style formatted strings (%)
+ o Newlines allowed before ternary colon
+ * Kernel and Object
+ o BasicObject
+ o #instance_exec
+ o Object#=~
+ o Object#tap
+ o Kernel#instance_variable_defined?
+ o Kernel#define_singleton_method
+ o Kernel#singleton_methods, Kernel#methods
+ * Class and Module
+ o Module#const_defined?, #const_get and #method_defined?
+ o Module#class_variable_defined?
+ o #class_variable_{set,get}
+ o Class of singleton classes
+ o #module_exec
+ * Binding#eval
+ * Blocks and Procs
+ o Arity of blocks without arguments
+ o proc is now a synonym of Proc.new
+ * Blocks and Procs
+ o Proc#yield
+ o Passing blocks to #[]
+ o Proc#lambda?
+ * Enumerable and Enumerator
+ o Enumerable methods called without a block
+ o Enumerable#cycle
+ o Enumerable#each_with_index
+ o Enumerable#first(n)
+ o Enumerable#group_by
+ o Enumerable#find_index
+ o Enumerable#take
+ o Enumerable#drop
+ o Enumerable#take_while
+ o Enumerable#drop_while
+ o Enumerator#each
+ o Enumerable#inject (#reduce) without a block
+ o Enumerable#count
+ o Enumerable#reduce
+ o Enumerator#with_index
+ o Enumerable##min_by, #max_by
+ o Enumerable#zip
+ o Enumerable#minmax and minmax_by
+ o Enumerator#rewind
+ o Enumerator#next
+ * Regexp#match, String#match
+ o Regexp#match, String#match
+ * Fiber: coroutines/micro-threads
+ * Array
+ o Block argument to Array#index, Array#rindex [Ruby2]
+ o Array#combination
+ o Array#permutation
+ o Array#product
+ o Array#pop, Array#shift
+ o Array#to_s is equivalent to Array#inspect
+ o Array.try_convert
+ * Hash
+ o preserving item insertion order
+ o Hash#_compare_by_identity and Hash#compare_by_identity?
+ o Hash.try_convert
+ * Integer
+ o Integer#odd?, #even?
+ o Integer#pred
+ * Method
+ o Method#receiver
+ o Method#name
+ o Method#owner
+ * Numeric
+ o Numeric#upto, #downto, #times, #step
+ o Numeric#scalar?, Complex#scalar?
+ o Numeric#div
+ o Numeric#fdiv
+ * Range
+ o Range#cover?
+ o Range#include?
+ o Range#min, Range#max
+ * Regexp
+ o Regexp#=== matches symbols
+ o Regexp.try_convert
+ * String
+ o String#clear
+ o String#each_char
+ o String#ord
+ o String#partition, #rpartition
+ o String#lines
+ o String#bytes
+ o String#encoding
+ o String#force_encoding
+ o String#start_with?, #end_with?
+ o String#unpack with a block
+ o String#hash
+ o String#upto
+ o String.try_convert
+ o String.encoding, String#force_encoding, String#encode
+ * Symbol
+ o Zero-length symbols allowed
+ o Symbol#=== matches strings
+ o Symbol#intern
+ o Symbol#encoding
+ o Symbol methods similar to those in String
+ * Math
+ o Math#log and Math#log2
+ * File and Dir operations
+ o New methods
+ * Process
+ o Process.setrlimit
+ o Process.daemon
+ o Process.exec
+ * Misc. new methods
+ o public_send
+ o GC.stress, GC.stress=
+ o Method#hash, Proc#hash
+ o __method__ and __callee__
+ o Symbol#to_proc
- :"foo", :"foo#{bar}", etc.
-
-: expression interpolation in strings
-
- Now arbitrary statements are allowed inside #{} interpolation
- without escapes. In other hand, they can no longer access to
- variables defined in eval.
-
-: negative number literals
-
- Digits preceded minus sign is a literal integer.
-
-: array expansion
-
- Fixed with the following behavior:
-
- a = *[1]
- p a #=> [1]
-
- Now 1-element array in rhs is expanded properly.
-
- a = *[1]
- p a #=> 1
-
-: break and next
-
- Extended to take an optional expression, which is used as a value
- for termination.
-
-: direct assignment to Foo::Bar is allowed
-
- also, you can define "class Foo::Bar; end".
-
-= language core
-
-: $stdin, $stdout, $stderr
-
- can be assignable again. the original stdio are preserved as STDIN,
- STDOUT, STDERR.
-
-: $VERBOSE now has 3 levels
-
- nil - silence, false - medium (default), true - verbose
-
-: allocation framework
-
- any instance of class can be allocated by class.allocate,
- (except for a few classes).
-
-: comparison of exception classes in a rescue clause
-
- changed to use Module#=== for comparing $! with the exception
- class specified in each rescue clause.
-
- as the previous behavior was to use kind_of?, the effect is limited
- to the SystemCallError case. SystemCallError.=== has been newly
- defined to return true when the two have the same errno. With this
- change, SystemCallError's with the same errno, such as Errno::EAGAIN
- and Errno::EWOULDBLOCK, can both be rescued by listing just one of
- them.
-
-: constants lookup
-
- improved at the performance of searching by using an internal hash
- table.
-
- calls const_missing method of the class/module, if constant is not
- found in the look up path.
-
-: expression parenthesis in the first argument
-
- altered to get the following code (note the space after p):
-
- p ("xx"*2).to_i
-
- Interpreted as:
-
- p (("xx"*2).to_i)
-
- Instead of:
-
- (p("xx"*2)).to_i
-
-: implicit comparison in conditional expressions
-
- Obsoleted except when it is used in -e.
-
- : between Range and $.
- Use explicit comparison instead.
-
- : between Regexp and $_
- Use the unary method ~/re/ instead.
-
-: to_str
-
- added to get objects which define to_str() treated as String's.
-
- now almost all the built-in methods try each argument with to_str()
- when they expect it to be a String.
-
- foo = Object.new
- class <<foo
- def to_str
- "foo"
- end
- end
- p File.open(foo)
- => -:7:in `open': wrong argument type Object (expected String) (TypeError)
- ruby 1.6.4 (2001-04-19) [i586-linux]
- => -:7:in `open': No such file or directory - "foo" (Errno::ENOENT)
- ruby 1.7.0 (2001-05-02) [i586-linux]
-
-: multiple assignment behavior
-
- Fixed so that "*a = nil" results in "a == []".
-
-= changes in core class library
-
-: open
-
- Extended so that when the third argument is permission flags it
- calls open(2) instead of fopen(3).
-
-: sprintf
-
- new format specifier "%p" is available.
-
-: lambda and proc
-
- Proc object returns from these methods has the following attributes:
-
- * strict argument number check
- * break and return terminates the proc execution.
-
-: warn(message)
-
- a method to give warnings.
-
-: abort()
-
- takes optional terminate message argument.
-
-: Object#initialize_copy
-
- copy constructor for clone and dup.
-
-: Object#instance_variable_set, Object#instance_variable_get
-
- added.
-
-: Object#singleton_method_removed
-: Object#singleton_method_undefined
-
- Added.
-
-: Array#transpose
-
- added.
-
-: Array#fetch(index [, default])
-
- Added. If a default value isn't given, raises index error if index
- is out of range.
-
-: Array#insert(n, other, ...)
-
- Added. [ruby-talk:14289]
-
- This is much the same as (({ary[n,0] = [other,...]})) except
- returing self.
-
- ary = [0,1,2,3]
- ary[2, 0] = [4, 5, 6]
- p ary
-
- ary = [0,1,2,3]
- ary.insert(2, 4, 5, 6)
- p ary
-
-: Array#sort!
-
- Changed to always return self without checking whether the sequence
- of the elements was modified or not.
-
- Beware that this behavior is not guaranteed to continue in the
- future. Do not rely on its return value. [ruby-dev:12506]
-
-: Array#filter
-
- Previously deprecated, now removed. Use Array#collect!.
-
-: Array#pack, String#unpack
-
- Allows comment in template strings.
-
-: Array#pack, String#unpack
-
- New templates 'q' and 'Q' for 64bit integer (signed and unsigned respectively).
-
-: Array#new
-
- Now takes block to fill initial values. E.g.
-
- Array.new(10) { |i| i + 1 }
- => [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10]
-
-: Array#fill
-
- Takes block to get the values to fill.
-
-: Array#fetch
-
- Takes block to get the default value.
-
-: Array#zip
-
- added.
-
-: Hash#update
-
- Takes block to resolve key conflict.
-
-: Hash#merge and Hash#merge!
-
- update hash. Hash#merge! is a synonym of Hash#update.
-
-: String#split
-
- if "sep" argument is a string, regular expression meta characters
- are escaped internally.
-
-: String#rstrip
-
- chop off NULs at the end of strings.
-
-: String#to_i
-
- Now accepts optional base argument.
-
- "101".to_i(10) => 101
- "101".to_i(2) => 5
- "101".to_i(8) => 65
- "101".to_i(16) => 257
-
- A base argument of 0 guesses at the base.
-
- "101".to_i(0) => 101
- "0b101".to_i(0) => 5
- "0101".to_i(0) => 65
- "0x101".to_i(0) => 257
-
-: String#[regexp, nth]
-
- Extended to accepts optional second argument.
-
- It tries match between self and REGEXP, then returns the
- content of the NTH regexp register.
-
-: String#casecmp
-
- Added. This is a case insensitive version of String#<=>.
-
-: String#chomp
-
- If $/ == "\n", chops off last newlines (any of \n, \r, \r\n).
-
-: String#eql?
-
- Changed to be always case sensitive.
-
-: String#insert(n, other)
-
- Added.
-
- This is much the same as (({str[n, 0] = other})) except returing
- self.
-
-: String#lstrip, rstrip, lstrip!, rstrip!
-
- Added. These strip only left or right part of a string.
-
-: String#match
-
- Added.
-
-: String/Array methods
-
- Returns an instance of receivers class.
-
-: String.new
-
- The first argument becomes optional.
-
-: Symbol#intern
-
- Added.
-
-: Symbol.all_symbols
-
- Added. [ruby-dev:12921]
-
-: IO
-
- 64bit off_t support by Janathan Baker.
-
-: IO#read
-: IO#sysread
-
- takes optinal second argument for read buffer.
-
-: IO::sysopen
-
- New method to get a raw file descriptor.
-
-: IO#sysseek
-
- Added.
-
-: IO#fsync
-
- new method that copies all in-memory parts of a file to disk and
- waits until the device reports that all parts are on stable storage.
- Implemented with fsync(2) or equivalent.
-
-: IO.open
-
- Made public. Can only associate an IO object with a file number
- like IO.new and IO.for_fd, but can take a block.
-
-: IO.for_fd
-
- Added as a synonym for IO.new.
-
-: IO.read
-
- Added. Like IO.readlines, except it returns the entire file as a
- string. [ruby-talk:9460]
-
-: File#fnmatch, File::Constants::FNM_*
-
- Added. Refer to the fnmatch(3) manpage for details.
-
- Localism is FNM_DOTMATCH which has the opposite meaning of the
- commonly known FNM_PERIOD, which does not exist in Ruby.
-
- e.g.
-
- # exclude files matching "*.bak" case-insensitively.
- files.reject! {|fn| File.fnmatch?("*.bak", fn, File::FNM_CASEFOLD) }
-
-: File.lchmod
-: File.lchown
-
- Added.
-
-: File.open, IO.open
-
- File mode can be specified by flags like open(2),
- e.g. File::open(path, File::CREAT|File::WRONLY).
-
-: Regexp#options
-
- Added.
-
-: Regexp.last_match(n)
-
- Extended to take an optional argument.
-
-: MatchData#captures
-
- added.
-
-: Dir#path
-
- Added.
-
-: Dir.chdir
-
- Extended to take a block.
-
-: Dir.glob
-
- Made to support meta-character escaping by a backslash. Wildcards
- and spaces may now be escaped using a backslash.
-
-: Dir.open
-
- Changed to return what the block returns when a block is given, just
- as File.open does. (It always returned (({nil})) in 1.6 and
- prior)
-
-: Dir.chdir
-
- Changed to warn only when invoked from multiple threads or no block
- is given. [ruby-dev:13823]
-
- Dir.chdir('foo') {
- Dir.chdir('bar') { # previously warned
- puts Dir.pwd
- }
- }
-
-: Dir#pos=
-
- Returns the new position instead of self.
-
-: Dir::glob
-
- Now accepts optional FNM_* flags via the second argument, whereas
- Dir::[] doesn't.
-
- Dir.glob("makefile", File::FNM_CASEFOLD) #=> ['Makefile', 'makefile']
-
-: Class#inherited
-
- Method is called when Class is inherited by another class.
-
- class A; end
- def A.inherited(by)
- puts "A inherited by #{by.inspect}"
- end
- class B < A; end
-
- Prints out "A inherited by B"
-
-: Module#include?
-
- Added. [ruby-dev:13941]
-
-: Module#included
-
- Added. This is a hook called after Module#append_feature.
-
-: Module#method_removed
-: Module#method_undefined
-
- Added.
-
-: Module.new, Class.new
-
- Extended to take block.
-
-: Time
-
- Extended to accept a negative time_t. (Only when the platform
- supports it)
-
- p Time.at(-1)
- => Thu Jan 01 08:59:59 JST 1970
-
-: Time#to_a
-: Time#zone
-
- Made to return "UTC" under gmtime. It used to return a platform
- dependent value, typically "GMT", in 1.6 and prior.
-
-: Marshal to use marshal_dump and marshal_load
-
- if a dumping object responds to 'marshal_dump', Marshal.dump calls
- it, and dumps object returned. Marshal.load allocates a new instance
- using "allocate", then calls its "marshal_load" with dumped data.
- Marshal format version is now 4.8 (was 4.6 in 1.6.8).
-
-: Marshal
-
- Fixed not to dump anonymous classes/modules.
-
- Fixed with loading modules.
-
-: Thread#group
-
- new method to get belonging ThreadGroup.
-
-: Thread#terminate
-
- synonym of Thread#exit
-
-: Thread#join
-
- Optional argument limits maximum time to wait the thread in second.
- And returns nil if timed out.
-
-: ThreagGroup#enclose
-
- prohibits thread movement from/to enclosed groups.
-
-: Range#step([step=1])
-
- Added.
-
-: SystemCallError
-
- SystemCallError's "===" match (used in rescue also) is now based on its errno.
-
-: Interrupt
-
- Made a subclass of SignalException. (It was a subclass of
- Exception in 1.6 and prior)
-
-: NameError and NoMethodError
-
- Moved and now NoMethodError < NameError < StandardError.
-
-: NoMethodError
-
- Added. [ruby-dev:12763]
-
-: NotImplementError
-
- Finally obsoleted. Use NotImplementedError.
-
-: SystemCallError.===
-
- Added. (See the "Comparison of exception classes in a rescue clause"
- paragraph above) [ruby-dev:12670]
-
-: SystemExit#status
-
- Added.
-
-: Proc#==
-
- Added.
-
-: Method#==
-
- Added.
-
-: UnboundMethod is no longer subclass of Method
-
- class hierarchy changed.
-
-: Enumerable#all?
-: Enumerable#any?
-: Enumerable#inject
-: Enumerable#sort_by
-
- Added.
-
-: Math.acos(x)
-: Math.asin(x)
-: Math.atan(x)
-: Math.cosh(x)
-: Math.hypot(x,y)
-: Math.sinh(x)
-: Math.tanh(x)
-
- Added.
-
-: Process.abort
-: Process.exit
-
- synonym of Kernel#abort, and Kernel#exit respectively.
-
-: Process::detach(pid)
-
- new method to detach child process. child process will be "wait"ed
- automagically.
-
-: Process.times
-
- Moved from Time.times. (Time.times still remains but emits a
- warning)
-
-: Process.waitall
-
- Added.
-
-: Process::Status
-
- Added. (({$?})) is now an instance of this class.
-
-: Process::UID, Process::GID, Process::Sys,
-
- Added.
-
-: Signal
-
- Added. This module has module functions Signal.trap and Signal.list.
-
-= changes in bundled libraries
-
-: lib/cgi.rb
-
- cgi[name] returns CGI::QueryExtension::Value that wraps string
- value, no longer array.
-
-: lib/timeout
-
- timeout "function" wrapped in Timeout module.
-
-: TCPServer#accept, UNIXServer#accept, Socket#accept
-
- New methods to return an accepted socket fd.
-
-: Date and DateTime
-
- lib/date.rb now provides both Date and DateTime.
-
- Some methods have been renamed. But the old names are still alive.
-
- Some new methods have been added (Date::parse, Date#strftime, etc.).
-
- Date#mjd now returns the chronological modified Julian day number.
-
- All facilities about tjd have been removed.
-
-: Curses
-
- Updated. New methods and constants for using the mouse, character
- attributes, colors and key codes have been added.
-
-: Net::HTTP
-
- New version of Net::HTTP has introduced seriously incompatible
- changes. For details, see document embedded in net/http.rb itself.
-
-: Socket.pack_sockaddr_in, Socket.unpack_sockaddr_in
-
- Added. Utility for direct Socket access.
-
-: Socket.pack_sockaddr_un, Socket.unpack_sockaddr_un
-
- Added. Utility for direct Socket access.
-
-: TCPServer#listen, UNIXServer#listen
-
- Added.
-
-: TCPSocket.new
-: TCPSocket.open
-
- Extended to take an address and a port number for the local side in
- optional 3rd and 4th arguments.
-
-= newly bundled library
-
-: ext/bigdecimal
-
- variable precision decimal number
-
-: ext/dl
-
- an interface to the dynamic linker.
-
-: ext/enumerator
-
- a helper module for the Enumerable interface.
-
-: ext/io/wait
-
- IO wait methods.
-
-: ext/iconv
-
- wrapper library of (({iconv})).
-
-: ext/openssl
-
- OpenSSL for Ruby
-
-: ext/racc/cparse
-
- Racc runtime library in C. (Racc is a parser generator for ruby)
-
-: ext/stringio
-
- Pseudo (({IO})) class from/to (({String})).
-
-: ext/strscan
-
- Fast string scanner library.
-
-: ext/syck
-
- fast YAML parser.
-
-: lib/abbrev
-
- creates an abbreviation table from a list
-
-: lib/benchmark
-
- Ruby scripts benchmarker
-
-: lib/cgi/session/pstore
-
- cgi/session back-end using pstore
-
-: lib/csv
-
- reads/writes CSV files.
-
-: lib/date/format
-
- strftime for Date class
-
-: lib/drb
-
- dRuby or distributed Ruby
-
-: lib/fileutils
-
- file utility library.
-
-: lib/generator
-
- converts an internal iterator to an external iterator
-
-: lib/gserver
-
- generic server used by xmlrpc
-
-: lib/ipaddr
-
- manipulates IP address.
-
-: lib/multi-tk
-
- to allow safe Tk, etc.
-
-: lib/open-uri
-
- easy-to-use wrapper for net/http and net/ftp
-
-: lib/optparse
-
- command line options utility library
-
-: lib/pathname
-
- handles pathname in OO manner.
-
-: lib/pp
-
- prettyprinter for Ruby objects
-
-: lib/prettyprint
-
- implements prettyprint algorithm.
-
-: lib/profiler
-
- library to implement -r "profile"
-
-: lib/racc/parser
-
- RACC parser generator runtime in Ruby.
-
-: lib/scanf
-
- scan string and retrieve object with format
-
-: lib/set
-
- Set class
-
-: lib/runit
-
- RubyUnit compatible layer for test/unit
-
-: lib/test/unit
-
- unit testing framework for Ruby
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-: lib/tmpdir
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- get temporary directory path.
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-: lib/tsort
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- topological sorting library.
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-: lib/rexml
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- REXML XML library
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-: lib/webrick
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- generic internet server kit
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-: lib/xmlrpc
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- simple RPC via XML
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-: lib/un
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- used like 'ruby -run -e cp -- -p foo bar'. neat, isn't it?
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-: lib/win32/registry
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- win32/registry is registry accessor
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-: lib/yaml
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- YAML Ain't Mark-up Language
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-= removed libraries
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-: lib/ftplib
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- use net/ftp instead.
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-: lib/telnet
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- use net/telnet instead.
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-= new port
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-: WindowsCE port
-: Win32 BCC
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-= interpreter implementation
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-: garbage collector
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- faster, but uses more memory for the worst case.
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-: string concatenation
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- faster by avoiding too frequent realloc(3).
+* Implementation
+ * Memory Diet
+ * Object Compaction - Object, Array, String, Hash, Struct, Class, Module
+ * st_table compaction (inlining small tables)
+ * YARV
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