Ruby Issue Tracking System

09/30/2025

02:34 AM Ruby Misc #21385: Namespace: Suggesting a rename

make_now_just (Hiroya Fujinami) wrote in #note-30:
> "Ruby Box" is a registered trademark in Japan by Hitachi Solutions Technology, Ltd.
> ...
Both Ruby and Box are common words, and mere combinations of them are not problematic, unles... matz (Yukihiro Matsumoto)

09/11/2025

05:21 AM Ruby Feature #21555 (Rejected): Add support for predicate attribute reader names

I still ask you to define `def valid? = @valid` manually. It is not much worse than `attr_reader :valid?`.
Matz.
matz (Yukihiro Matsumoto)

09/09/2025

02:06 AM Ruby Misc #21566: Transfer Shopify/yjit-bench and speed.yjit.org to ruby/ruby-bench and *.ruby-lang.org

Sounds great! Go ahead.
Matz.
matz (Yukihiro Matsumoto)

09/02/2025

03:13 AM Ruby Feature #17398: SyntaxError in endless method

Sounds reasonable, considering existing grammar.
Matz.
matz (Yukihiro Matsumoto)

08/22/2025

09:40 AM Ruby Feature #21550: Ractor.shareable_proc/shareable_lambda to make sharable Proc object

I understand the concern for future confusion, but it's a trade-off. I'd accept confusion here (option 1) to avoid complex semantics and implementation.
Matz.
matz (Yukihiro Matsumoto)

08/21/2025

01:46 PM Ruby Feature #17316: On memoization

Currently, `?=` means "a single character =". We don't want to break current available syntax, unless absolutely necessary.
Matz.
matz (Yukihiro Matsumoto)

09:34 AM Ruby Feature #12282: Hash#dig! for repeated applications of Hash#fetch

`fetch_path` is much better than `dig!` since this bang method is against our naming convention (if we have x and x!, a method with `!` (bang) should be more dangerous).
At the same time, `_path` usually means file paths in Ruby, and po... matz (Yukihiro Matsumoto)

09:27 AM Ruby Feature #21518: Statistical helpers to `Enumerable`

I am positive about adding those methods, but I am no expert on Mathematics nor Statistics.
Matz.
matz (Yukihiro Matsumoto)

09:22 AM Ruby Misc #21385: Namespace: Suggesting a rename

I accept `Ruby::Box`. I saw the proposal for `Ruby::Context` but this namespace things are a bit different from the `context`.
Matz.
matz (Yukihiro Matsumoto)

09:20 AM Ruby Bug #21529: Deprecate the /o modifier and warn against using it

Sorry, `/o` is a traditional option. Even though Perl is not popular anymore, we are **not** going to deprecate it. If you (or someone) is going to update the document for modern audience, I'd be very happy.
Matz.
matz (Yukihiro Matsumoto)