From: Xavier Noria <fxn@...>
Date: 2011-01-05T00:54:43+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:34059] Re: ruby -h doesn't include --disable-gems

On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 4:48 PM, U.Nakamura <usa@garbagecollect.jp> wrote:

> Yes, the rule is not important.
> In Windows, system inserts a null line after ruby's output,
> so the first line goes out of screen.
> Therefore, the rule doesn't make sense :)

Just curious.

I never heard of that 24 rule before, and it is certainly something I
don't see often that I am aware of. For example

    fxn@halmos:~ ��� ack --help | wc -l
     124

(though a particular counterexample doesn't do much to support the
statement :D).

What was the rationale? Is it convenient in some platform for some reason?