Ironruby core - Jan 2008 - SVN Revision 71

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The major Ruby-visible change is the addition of super thanks to John Messerly.

The constant generation bug that Peter reported is now fixed in this revision.

You''ll also see some of the beginnings of our hosting API work on
console streams.

The rake test runner is broken on a StringScanner test issue. On examining the
test that fails, I really don''t understand what the test is trying to
do after looking at the sources. I''ve inverted the test in a shelveset
that I have here which does a bunch of other test-related fixes (the goal is to
drive all spec failures to zero using the exclude functionality and use zero
failures as a baseline for regression testing).

Tomas is now working on fixing the scanner (yay). One of the outcomes I want to
see out of that work is zero failures out of the parser. Right now we still blow
up on some specs due to parser exceptions. This will help drive the zero spec
failure baseline from above.

Thanks,
-John

John Lam:
> Tomas is now working on fixing the scanner (yay). One of the outcomes I
want to see out of that work is zero failures out of the
> parser. Right now we still blow up on some specs due to parser exceptions.
This will help drive the zero spec failure baseline 
> from above.
Does that include "turning on" Bignum?

Peter Bacon Darwin:
> Does that include "turning on" Bignum?
Yes. I was hacking on turning on Bignum in another shelveset earlier, but I
think we can do it as part of that change.

Thanks,
-John