# SVN Revision 71

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/svn-revision-71/125618>\
**Category:** IronRuby\
**Created:** [January 10, 2008, 5:40pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/svn-revision-71/125618 "2008-01-10T17:40:26Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![John\_LSSDLR](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/5f8ce5/32.png) [@John\_LSSDLR](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/John_LSSDLR)\
**Post date:** [January 10, 2008, 5:40pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/svn-revision-71/125618/1 "2008-01-10T17:40:26Z")

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Whoops - sent to wrong list 🙂

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

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**Author:** ![John\_LSSDLR](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/5f8ce5/32.png) [@John\_LSSDLR](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/John_LSSDLR)\
**Post date:** [January 10, 2008, 7:18pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/svn-revision-71/125618/2 "2008-01-10T19:18:32Z")

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John L.:

> 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?

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**Author:** ![John\_LSSDLR](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/5f8ce5/32.png) [@John\_LSSDLR](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/John_LSSDLR)\
**Post date:** [January 10, 2008, 7:19pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/svn-revision-71/125618/3 "2008-01-10T19:19:10Z")

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Peter Bacon D.:

> 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