Comments on "changes.1.8.0"

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The changes.1.8.0 file mentioned when 1.8.0 was announced is an
important document. Therefore, I’ve read it carefully and made the
comments below (fortunatly not many). I’ve also looked at gaps in
’ri’ with reference to it, and updated
http://www.rubygarden.org/ruby?RIOnePointEight

BTW changes.1.8.0 does not appear to be in CVS. Why not?

Cheers,
Gavin

The following text is unlikely to be current. Surely the behaviour is fixed
by now.

: 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]
···

Should this be Enumerable#zip ?

: Array#zip

  added.

This is redundant; rstrip and lstrip are mentioned together elsewhere. It’s
incorrect as well, I think, as it mentions only NULs.

: String#rstrip

  chop off NULs at the end of strings.
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In addition:

lib_csv_description.sub!(/CVS/, "CSV")

– fxn

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On Monday 04 August 2003 15:58, Gavin Sinclair wrote:

The changes.1.8.0 file mentioned when 1.8.0 was announced is an
important document. Therefore, I’ve read it carefully and made the
comments below (fortunatly not many).

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It is, but it’s called doc/NEWS.

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On Monday, Aug 4, 2003, at 07:58 America/Denver, Gavin Sinclair wrote:

BTW changes.1.8.0 does not appear to be in CVS. Why not?

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