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Though 1.8.7 was released more than 5 years ago (and the language has evolved a lot since then) and the RubySpec are usually not up to date, at least not documenting all the features as they come in (as Brian Ford and others have pointed out several times).

Not to be an ungrateful d*ck, I think the progress made is fantastic and supported by a bunch of extremely dedicated, talented and courageous people, but there is something of a void in terms of Ruby-as-formally-specified-language, hard to deny. But as usual, I guess it's hard to find the manpower, the time and the money to support such efforts.




Yup. I totally agree with you, a formal spec would be great. But it's not in the cards, so we do the best with what we've got.




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