Misc #21325: make ruby more middle-aged man friendly

• Status: Open
• Assignee: -

[pynix (Pynix wang)]

after 35, I lose all interests about programming.

no linux, no vim, no iterm2, and no much much.

when I want to format a ruby time to string.

I will try Time.now.format("yy-MM-dd"),

but I get private method 'format' called for an instance of Time

ohh, I google ruby time format,

then I get strftime,

I know this is from c standard library.

answer me, looking my eyes. why? baby why?

why I have to use c style method with ruby in 2025.

format is the first choose when we not familiar with Time class,

so, format is private, so we can rename it to _format,

and make format a copy of strftime and deprecate the old one,

[pynix (Pynix wang)]

• Tracker changed from Bug to Misc
• Backport deleted (3.2: UNKNOWN, 3.3: UNKNOWN, 3.4: UNKNOWN)

[nobu (Nobuyoshi Nakada)]

format is an alias of #sprinf inherited from Kernel.
We can't rename it.

[pynix (Pynix wang)]

nobu (Nobuyoshi Nakada) wrote in #note-2:

format is an alias of #sprinf inherited from Kernel.
We can't rename it.

if format is not ok,

to_s will be good, like Integer, 255.to_s(16)

[nobu (Nobuyoshi Nakada)]

pynix (Pynix wang) wrote in #note-3:

nobu (Nobuyoshi Nakada) wrote in #note-2:

format is an alias of #sprinf inherited from Kernel.
We can't rename it.

if format is not ok,

I don't say that overriding format is not ok.
Just renaming Kernel#format is not acceptable.

to_s will be good, like Integer, 255.to_s(16)

Overriding to_s can be a candidate as well.