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@@ -17,8 +17,6 @@ See doc/NEWS-1.8.7 for changes between 1.8.6 and 1.8.7. * New syntax and semantics o Block arguments are always local o New semantics for block arguments - o Method used for splat arguments: #to_splat instead of - #to_ary o defined? and local variables o Parser expects that your source code has only valid byte sequence in some character encoding. Use magic comments @@ -26,6 +24,9 @@ See doc/NEWS-1.8.7 for changes between 1.8.6 and 1.8.7. o New semantics for constant definition in instance_eval or in module_eval. + * Deprecated syntax + o colon (:) instead of "then" in if/unless or case expression. + o retry in a loop or an iterator. * builtin classes and objects @@ -33,7 +34,8 @@ See doc/NEWS-1.8.7 for changes between 1.8.6 and 1.8.7. o Kernel#methods and #singleton_methods used to return an array of strings but now they return an array of symbols. * Class and Module - o Module#attr is an alias of attr_reader + o Module#attr works as Module#attr_reader by default. + Optional boolean argument is obsolete. o Module#instance_methods, #private_instance_methods and #public_instance_methods used to return an array of strings but now they return an array of symbols. @@ -75,7 +77,6 @@ See doc/NEWS-1.8.7 for changes between 1.8.6 and 1.8.7. o Non-blocking IO o Kernel#open takes "t" for newline conversion o Kernel#open takes encoding specified - o IO#initialize now accepts an IO argument o IO automatically converts byte sequence from a character encodings into another if specified. o StringIO#readpartial @@ -309,7 +310,6 @@ See doc/NEWS-1.8.7 for changes between 1.8.6 and 1.8.7. o String#match * Symbol o Zero-length symbols allowed - o Symbol#=== matches strings o Symbol#intern o Symbol#encoding o Symbol methods similar to those in String |