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kddnewton (Kevin Newton)

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  • Registered on: 11/20/2015
  • Last sign in: 10/08/2025

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Ruby Committer 06/28/2023

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10/11/2025

07:08 PM Ruby Bug #21635 (Closed): Reading code from STDIN unexpectedly sets $_ in 3.4.6+
Applied in changeset commit:git|d036dc0a794d87309f912e7585749c681c2438f5.
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For prism parser, do not update... kddnewton (Kevin Newton)
07:08 PM Ruby Revision d036dc0a (git): For prism parser, do not update $_ from STDIN
Fixes [Bug #21635] kddnewton (Kevin Newton)

10/10/2025

02:08 PM Ruby Bug #21635: Reading code from STDIN unexpectedly sets $_ in 3.4.6+
This is happening because of prism's use of IO#gets on STDIN. We will fix this. kddnewton (Kevin Newton)

10/09/2025

01:34 PM Ruby Bug #21187: Strings concatenated with `\` getting frozen with literal hashes (PRISM only)
Just released v1.5.2 kddnewton (Kevin Newton)
01:31 PM Ruby Revision f486b390 (git): [ruby/prism] Bump to v
https://github.com/ruby/prism/commit/7574837b7b kddnewton (Kevin Newton)

10/08/2025

01:11 PM Ruby Misc #21630 (Open): Suggest @Earlopain for core contributor
@Earlopain has been prolifically contributing to Prism for over a year, in addition to other various changes around r... kddnewton (Kevin Newton)
12:51 PM Ruby Bug #21618: Allow to use the build-in prism version to parse code
I don't think these are theoretical concerns at all — this issue has bothered me since we shipped prism initially to ... kddnewton (Kevin Newton)

09/30/2025

08:09 PM Ruby Bug #21618: Allow to use the build-in prism version to parse code
So the issue is that there is the C library and then there is the Ruby library. The C library can parse and provide a... kddnewton (Kevin Newton)
05:59 PM Ruby Bug #21618: Allow to use the build-in prism version to parse code
Yes, this was brought up by @k0kubun originally as one of the requirements. At the moment the official answer is `Pri... kddnewton (Kevin Newton)
05:53 PM Ruby Bug #21187: Strings concatenated with `\` getting frozen with literal hashes (PRISM only)
Yeah, it broke CI on macOS https://github.com/ruby/ruby/actions/runs/16430139182/job/46429723627#step:9:179 kddnewton (Kevin Newton)

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