[#3479] Missing .document files for ext/ libraries — Brian Candler <B.Candler@...>

The ri documentation for zlib, strscan and iconv doesn't get built by 'make

12 messages 2004/10/06

[#3492] Re: ANN: Free-form-operators patch — Markus <markus@...>

> In message "Re: ANN: Free-form-operators patch"

15 messages 2004/10/11
[#3493] Re: ANN: Free-form-operators patch — Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@...> 2004/10/11

Hi,

[#3495] Re: ANN: Free-form-operators patch — Markus <markus@...> 2004/10/12

On Mon, 2004-10-11 at 16:16, Yukihiro Matsumoto wrote:

[#3561] 1.8.2 - what can we do to help? — Dave Thomas <dave@...>

Folks:

23 messages 2004/10/26
[#3562] Re: 1.8.2 - what can we do to help? — Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@...> 2004/10/27

Hi,

Re: [BUG] Small issues with Symbols

From: Florian Gro<florgro@...>
Date: 2004-10-27 14:30:29 UTC
List: ruby-core #3580
jim@freeze.org wrote:

> * Florian Gro<florgro@gmail.com> [2004-10-27 23:08:24 +0900]:
> 
>>6) It is possible to create an empty symbol literal via :"#{""}"
> 
> but not with nil:
> 
>   irb(main):007:0> :"#{nil}"
>   ArgumentError: interning empty string

Quite odd, because "#{nil}" works. Maybe it was an attempt to protect 
against zero-width symbols?

> Also, I couldn't set $1 to a value:
> 
>   irb(main):008:0> $1 = 5
>   SyntaxError: compile error
>   (irb):8: Can't set variable $1

You can set it indirectly via $~. (Which should contain a MatchData 
object.) $1 is just an alias for $~[1].


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