[#16611] lambda, ->, haskell, and so on — Dave Thomas <dave@...>
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David A. Black wrote:
wouldn't
On Thu, May 01, 2008 at 12:26:47PM +0900, Dave Thomas wrote:
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On Tue, May 06, 2008 at 02:02:34AM +0900, David A. Black wrote:
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Not to throw the whole thread into a tizzy again, but why again is:
Evan Phoenix wrote:
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On Sun, May 11, 2008 at 9:49 AM, Nobuyoshi Nakada <nobu@ruby-lang.org>
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What about "fn" or "fun", for "function"?
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On Wed, 14 May 2008, David A. Black wrote:
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how about an uppercase lambda (instead of the usual lowercase one)
Christopher Gill wrote:
Suraj N. Kurapati wrote:
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Nobuyoshi Nakada wrote:
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"Jeremy McAnally" <jeremymcanally@gmail.com> wrote on 05/22/2008 05:35:01=20
2008/5/23 <Nate_Wiger@playstation.sony.com>:
I am not sure if that fits to the thread. I have not used yet the more
Tammo Tjarks wrote:
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> assert_yin_yang -> { q += 0 }, 'it broke!', -> { q == 42 }
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[#16627] Monotonic timeofday() — zimbatm <zimbatm@...>
Hi ruby-core.
[#16642] ruby/trunk rev 16276 broken? ib/erb.rb:429:in `initialize': wrong argument type StringScanner (expected true) (TypeError) — Kurt Stephens <ks@...>
Build crashes shortly after miniruby linkage
[#16648] Uniform RDoc markup — "Jeremy McAnally" <jeremymcanally@...>
Would there be any resistance to making the markup of the RDoc
[#16760] errors running make test — Stephen Bannasch <stephen.bannasch@...>
I updated to revision 16403 and now compiling and running ruby1.9
[#16772] The RubySpec project at rubyspec.org — Brian Ford <brixen@...>
Hi all,
[#16773] Singleton methods on Float and Bignum — Evan Phoenix <evan@...>
In 1.8 (and 1.9 likely), trying to add a singleton method to a Float
Evan Phoenix wrote:
[#16788] Ruby 1.8.7-preview3 has been released — "Akinori MUSHA" <knu@...>
Folks,
[#16791] GC heap allocation in 1.9 — Sylvain Joyeux <sylvain.joyeux@...4x.org>
While getting the latest of trunk, I stumbled on r16194.
[#16806] nil.instance_eval — ts <decoux@...>
[#16807] Embedding Ruby1.9: seg fault — Masoom <masoom.shaikh@...>
Hi,
Hi,
that means current vm is not embeddable ? by min. src I guess you mean the
Masoom wrote:
[#16812] Proposal: Subject of ruby-core ML article should include artile number — SASADA Koichi <ko1@...>
Hi,
On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 8:20 AM, SASADA Koichi <ko1@atdot.net> wrote:
Luis Lavena wrote:
[#16832] Who is responsible for Ruby license? — "Han, Kimyung" <Kimyung.Han@...>
I am trying to discuss the ruby license with anyone who is responsible
[#16834] Returning duplicate values from Dir.glob — "Vladimir Sizikov" <vsizikov@...>
Hi,
[#16839] ruby autoconf problems — "Michal Suchanek" <hramrach@...>
Hello
[#16864] removal of magical definition of name for some class definition idioms — "Robert Dober" <robert.dober@...>
Dear list
[#16884] block args w/ defaults (was Re: resolving lambda | ambiguity) — "Eric Mahurin" <eric.mahurin@...>
On Sat, May 24, 2008 at 4:06 PM, Eric Mahurin <eric.mahurin@gmail.com>
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[#16886] lambda with normal block syntax — "Eric Mahurin" <eric.mahurin@...>
This patch is an independent but related one to my previous one. It can be
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On Sun, May 25, 2008 at 8:19 PM, Nobuyoshi Nakada <nobu@ruby-lang.org>
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On Mon, May 26, 2008 at 4:14 PM, Dave Thomas <dave@pragprog.com> wrote:
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On Mon, May 26, 2008 at 5:18 PM, Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@ruby-lang.org>
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If I may, here are two entries from the ChangeLog file:
Dave Thomas wrote:
Dave Thomas wrote:
Dave Thomas wrote:
On May 27, 2008, at 12:33 PM, David Flanagan wrote:
James Gray wrote:
Dave Thomas wrote:
David Flanagan wrote:
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On 5/28/08, Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@ruby-lang.org> wrote:
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On Sun, May 25, 2008 at 2:31 AM, Eric Mahurin <eric.mahurin@gmail.com> wrote:
[#16921] Major performance degradation on trunk — "Vladimir Sizikov" <vsizikov@...>
Hi,
[#16943] Re: [PATCH] block args w/ defaults (updated) — "Eric Mahurin" <eric.mahurin@...>
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[#16945] Oniguruma and \p{Greek} — Dave Thomas <dave@...>
Looking at the source, I'd expect the following to work:
[#16951] Ruby 1.9 "exception reentered" — "Paul Boekholt" <p.boekholt@...>
Hi,
2008/5/27, Paul Boekholt <p.boekholt@gmail.com>:
2008/6/6, Paul Boekholt <p.boekholt@gmail.com>:
> 2008/6/6, Paul Boekholt <p.boekholt@gmail.com>:
[#16953] 1.8.6, jemalloc, sock.close problem — Christopher Thompson <cthompson@...>
Warning: This message is probably only peripherally related to Ruby!
I used to catch Errno::EINVAL when using lots of open file descriptors
[#16955] ruby-mode.el copyright assignment — Phil Hagelberg <phil@...>
Hi,
[#16979] Array.nitems replacement? — David Flanagan <david@...>
Array.nitems has just been removed from 1.9, and as near as I can make
[#16984] ZLIB for MSVC 8 - tar_input.rb — "Giancarlo F Bellido" <support@...>
I managed to install wxruby and compile zlib extension using this patch in
On May 28, 2008, at 19:48 PM, Giancarlo F Bellido wrote:
[#17010] unexpected return using define_method — Paul Brannan <pbrannan@...>
Is this a bug?
Paul Brannan wrote:
On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 06:10:25PM +0900, ts wrote:
Paul Brannan wrote:
[#17028] Ruby 1.8.7 has been released — "Akinori MUSHA" <knu@...>
Folks,
On Sun, Jun 01, 2008 at 12:25:08AM +0900, Akinori MUSHA wrote:
At Mon, 2 Jun 2008 06:37:21 +0900,
On Mon, Jun 02, 2008 at 03:46:53PM +0900, Akinori MUSHA wrote:
[#17030] Bytecode handling (compilation) extensions to Ruby 1.9 — Adam Strzelecki <ono@...>
Hello,
Hello again,
Hi,
> to_ary() convert ISeq object to Array and well known objects such as
Re: lambda, ->, haskell, and so on
On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 1:38 PM, Phlip <phlip2005@gmail.com> wrote:
> > So, you prefer lambda(x) {...} or x => {...} over ->(x){...}, right?
> Computer terms should be named after real things.
Can you provide an example of a "real thing" that is in some way
equivalent to an anonymous function?
> Terms like pi, x, y, delta, lambda, theta, etc are named after greek letters
> that math professors scribbled on their blackboards during lectures. They
> picked convenient letters, and these stuck - as if they actually described
> circles, coordinates, increments, etc.
"That math professors scribble/d/"? Last time I took a math course
(about three years ago) they were still doing it.
> Programmers should not abuse jargon in our source code!
Programming is all about notation ("jargon", as you call it). There's
no reason not to use conventions and notation established in
mathematics in programming as well. Would you have us stop using x
and y for coordinates as well?