[#2367] Standard libraries — Dave Thomas <dave@...>

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60 messages 2004/02/11

[#2397] PATCH: deprecate cgi-lib, getopts, importenv, parsearg from standard library — Gavin Sinclair <gsinclair@...>

Index: cgi-lib.rb

15 messages 2004/02/12

[#2465] PATCH: OpenStruct#initialize to yield self — Gavin Sinclair <gsinclair@...>

This is a common approach I use to object initialization; I don't know

24 messages 2004/02/19

Re: Standard libraries

From: "Sean E. Russell" <ser@...>
Date: 2004-02-13 12:21:38 UTC
List: ruby-core #2433
On Thursday 12 February 2004 20:13, J.Herre wrote:
> I think we should do matz.clone and then have netlab hire that person
> to do nothing but maintain libraries. ;)  I'm sure this has been
> suggested before.

But, then, matz.clone would want to work on the fun stuff, like Ruby 2.0, too.  
No, you have to also override some methods:

	library_matz = matz.clone
	class << library_matz 
		def work_on
			maintain_libraries()
		end
	end

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