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I guess RubyKaigi2006 is proving to be a nice hackathon, cause Ruby CVS is suddenly checkins aplenty. Of particular note is the inclusion of Symbol#to_proc, a long-standing feat of clever quacking we’ve all come to adore.

 Sun Jun 11 04:38:20 2006 Nobuyoshi Nakada <nobu@ruby-lang.org>
 * object.c (sym_to_proc): imported Symbol#to_proc from ActiveSupport.
 Sat Jun 10 15:12:29 2006 NAKAMURA Usaku <usa@ruby-lang.org>
 * eval.c (rb_f_method_name, rb_f_callee_name): new functions.
 new global method `__method__' and `__callee__'.

Over the last few days, Matz has also backed out a lot of the experimental syntax out of HEAD (the ;; terminator, the -> style blocks) while adding flexible argument lists (multiple splats, additional arguments after the splat.)