What's discouraging you from writing ruby 1.9-specific code?

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Published on 2010-04-22T03:11:53Z Indexed on 2010/04/22 3:13 UTC
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backwards-compatibility

So far, I've been merely using YARV (ruby 1.9) as merely a faster implementation of ruby than ruby 1.8, and ensured that all of my code is backwards-compatible with ruby 1.8.6. What circumstances, if any, are stopping you from writing 1.9-specific code?

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