# Ruby-dev summary 28637 - 28714

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**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [June 14, 2006, 2:45pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-dev-summary-28637-28714/63355 "2006-06-14T14:45:59Z")\
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Hello all,

This is a summary of ruby-dev mailing list.

[ruby-dev:28681] Block parameter and multiple values

Takaaki T. asked about the current status of new block parameter  
behavior  
in Ruby 2.0. He also made a summary[1] of the new specification from  
Rite page  
on RubyGarden[2] and Matz’ weblog[3].

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[1] Takaaki's summary: 

```

[http://pub.cozmixng.org/~the-rwiki/?cmd=view;name=Ruby2.0BlockParameterAndMultipleValueAssignment](http://pub.cozmixng.org/~the-rwiki/?cmd=view;name=Ruby2.0BlockParameterAndMultipleValueAssignment)  
[2] Rite: [http://wiki.rubygarden.org/Ruby/page/show/Rite](http://wiki.rubygarden.org/Ruby/page/show/Rite)  
[3] Matz’ weblog: [http://www.rubyist.net/~matz/20060323.html#p01](http://www.rubyist.net/~matz/20060323.html#p01)

Matz added his idea to the summary page. Some of the ideas are being  
added  
to the CVS HEAD.

[ruby-dev:28689] digest.rb

Tanaka A. posted digest.rb to make requiring Digest library simple.  
We can use any digest algorithm by this script:

```
  module Digest
    autoload "MD5", "digest/md5"
    autoload "RMD160", "digest/rmd160"
    autoload "SHA1", "digest/sha1"
    autoload "SHA256", "digest/sha2"
    autoload "SHA384", "digest/sha2"
    autoload "SHA512", "digest/sha2"
  end

```

He added that the script might be a good place to hold common Digest  
methods,  
such as hexdigest\_file.

[ruby-dev:28708] 1.8.5 release schedule?

Matz talked about the 1.8.5 release in RubyKaigi2006(the 1st Ruby  
Conference  
in Japan). mput asked about the the release schedule and he replied  
that the  
release date will be the middle of August.

ruby-dev summary index:  
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