<story><title>Ruby 2.7</title><url>https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2019/12/25/ruby-2-7-0-released/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>seanmccann</author><text>I had wondered why most recent Ruby releases were on Christmas Day and recently found out why. The Ruby creator Matz is religious (LDS), and he considers it a Christmas gift to the community. I thought that was really cool.</text></comment>
<story><title>Ruby 2.7</title><url>https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2019/12/25/ruby-2-7-0-released/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>burlesona</author><text>&amp;gt; Calling a private method with a literal self as the receiver is now allowed.&lt;p&gt;Oof. Call me old fashioned, but I liked the consistency of not being able to call private methods with an explicit receiver. Oh well!&lt;p&gt;The rest of this looks great, thanks Ruby team!</text></comment>