Oscar Campbell

This is not exactly related, but, In my opinion, when a func can return T|Nil and has alternative that raises - then they should be named `foo?` and `foo!` respectively....

Being able to return `Foo|Err`, where `Err` is defined to be "falsey" at _class-method level_ would be awesome (allowing generalizing the `Foo|Nil` conditional check type narrowing, allowing, perhaps even: `Any|Types|AsLong|AsOnlyOne|IsTruthy`...

The issue is a bug in the regex that matches string start and end, it uses Java-syntax instead of C#.

It wouldn't be impossible despite GC. But you'd get the reverse problem of manual memory managment (remembering to free memory), namely ensuring that memory is _kept_, keeping lists of pointers...

I wish dynamic linking was dead already B-) And also, that everyone shared their source, and everyone's source was in Crystal B-) (Pipe dream disintegrates and I'm suddenly back in...

> Do you really want to have every application include in its executable the same parts of code from the std library? Yes, and no. _Yes:_ I'd prefer all applications...

The version messes in Linux distros not using all statically linked binaries you mean ;-)

I was about to mention in my rant that even RPi's and hand helds wouldn't be a problem - but you might build enormously bigger applications than me B-)

Agree with @Bew78LesellB - Messaging, whether with help by, say, ZMQ, straight pipes, TCP or just about anything, with MsgPack, JSON, or just about anything, again - is a better...

@wied03 - well that argument could really be swung both ways without being a stretch, imo: If a library is updated in a haste because of a security problem, that...