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[#4510] Test Failure for test_gc(Rinda::TupleSpaceTest) — noreply@...

Bugs item #1567, was opened at 02-03-2005 09:59

1 message 2005/03/02

[#4511] Minor doc fix — Emiel van de Laar <emiel@...>

Hi all,

2 messages 2005/03/04

[#4517] Re: Minor doc fix — Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@...> 2005/03/05

[#4512] Integer.odd?/.even? — Bertram Scharpf <lists@...>

Hi,

1 message 2005/03/04

[#4515] Re: Integer.odd?/.even? — "Berger, Daniel" <Daniel.Berger@...>

> -----Original Message-----

1 message 2005/03/04

[#4516] Re: Integer.odd?/.even? — Brent Roman <brent@...>

Hi,

1 message 2005/03/04

[#4518] Patch for denial of service vulnerability in WEBrick — Dominique Brezinski <dom@...>

We built a service using WEBrick with SSL enabled, and in the process

3 messages 2005/03/05

[#4519] Re: Patch for denial of service vulnerability in WEBrick — GOTOU Yuuzou <gotoyuzo@...> 2005/03/05

Hi,

[#4521] Re: Patch for denial of service vulnerability in WEBrick — Dominique Brezinski <dom@...> 2005/03/06

The patch looks good. It catches both error cases we noticed. Thanks for

[#4522] Undefined Errno::EPROTO and the like raises NameError — "Florian Frank" <flori@...>

Hi,

5 messages 2005/03/07

[#4524] Re: Undefined Errno::EPROTO and the like raises NameError — Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@...> 2005/03/08

Hi,

[#4525] Re: Undefined Errno::EPROTO and the like raises NameError — Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@...> 2005/03/08

Hi,

[#4530] Re: Undefined Errno::EPROTO and the like raises NameError — "Florian Frank" <flori@...> 2005/03/08

Yukihiro Matsumoto wrote:

[#4527] Re: Undefined Errno::EPROTO and the like raises NameError — Sam Roberts <sroberts@...> 2005/03/08

Quoting matz@ruby-lang.org, on Tue, Mar 08, 2005 at 10:03:16AM +0900:

[#4523] Ruby's YAML parser doesn't ignore trailing whitespace — noreply@...

Bugs item #1590, was opened at 2005-03-07 15:01

1 message 2005/03/07

[#4526] Re: Undefined Errno::EPROTO and the like raises NameError — Daniel Berger <djberg96@...>

2 messages 2005/03/08

[#4529] Re: Undefined Errno::EPROTO and the like raises NameError — Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@...> 2005/03/08

Hi,

[#4531] Regex.new — George Ogata <g_ogata@...>

2 messages 2005/03/08

[#4532] Re: [DOC-PATCH] Regex.new — Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@...> 2005/03/08

Hi,

[#4533] giving acces readline to rl_line_buffer — "Cs. Henk" <csaba-ml@...>

Hi!

1 message 2005/03/09

[#4534] Win32 Non-ASCII Filename Access — Austin Ziegler <halostatue@...>

Matz,

3 messages 2005/03/09

[#4535] Re: Win32 Non-ASCII Filename Access — Vincent Isambart <vincent.isambart@...> 2005/03/09

Hi,

[#4536] Re: Win32 Non-ASCII Filename Access — Austin Ziegler <halostatue@...> 2005/03/09

On Thu, 10 Mar 2005 01:18:53 +0900, Vincent Isambart

[#4537] Re: Win32 Non-ASCII Filename Access — "Berger, Daniel" <Daniel.Berger@...>

> -----Original Message-----

2 messages 2005/03/09

[#4538] Re: Win32 Non-ASCII Filename Access — Austin Ziegler <halostatue@...> 2005/03/09

On Thu, 10 Mar 2005 01:38:12 +0900, Berger, Daniel

[#4539] Re: Win32 Non-ASCII Filename Access — "Berger, Daniel" <Daniel.Berger@...>

> -----Original Message-----

2 messages 2005/03/09

[#4540] Re: Win32 Non-ASCII Filename Access — Austin Ziegler <halostatue@...> 2005/03/09

On Thu, 10 Mar 2005 02:25:45 +0900, Berger, Daniel

[#4541] Re: Win32 Non-ASCII Filename Access — "Berger, Daniel" <Daniel.Berger@...>

> -----Original Message-----

2 messages 2005/03/09

[#4543] Re: Win32 Non-ASCII Filename Access — Austin Ziegler <halostatue@...> 2005/03/09

On Thu, 10 Mar 2005 04:10:17 +0900, Berger, Daniel

[#4542] logger.rb - allowing logger to be innitialized in a single line — Sam Roberts <sroberts@...>

1 message 2005/03/09

[#4544] Re: [patch] logger.rb - allowing logger to be innitialized in a single line — "Berger, Daniel" <Daniel.Berger@...>

> -----Original Message-----

2 messages 2005/03/09

[#4545] Re: [patch] logger.rb - allowing logger to be innitialized in a single line — Sam Roberts <sroberts@...> 2005/03/09

Quoting Daniel.Berger@qwest.com, on Thu, Mar 10, 2005 at 06:16:28AM +0900:

[#4546] Re: [patch] logger.rb - allowing logger to be innitialized in a single line — "Berger, Daniel" <Daniel.Berger@...>

Hi,

1 message 2005/03/09

[#4547] Re: Win32 Non-ASCII Filename Access — "Berger, Daniel" <Daniel.Berger@...>

> -----Original Message-----

3 messages 2005/03/09

[#4549] Re: Win32 Non-ASCII Filename Access — Austin Ziegler <halostatue@...> 2005/03/10

On Thu, 10 Mar 2005 07:18:37 +0900, Berger, Daniel

[#4550] Re: Win32 Non-ASCII Filename Access — Austin Ziegler <halostatue@...> 2005/03/10

I wrote:

[#4548] Ruby 1.8.2 array of hash entries functions incorrectly — noreply@...

Bugs item #1613, was opened at 2005-03-09 19:49

4 messages 2005/03/10

[#4551] Re: [ ruby-Bugs-1613 ] Ruby 1.8.2 array of hash entries functions incorrectly — Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@...> 2005/03/10

Hi,

[#4553] Re: [ ruby-Bugs-1613 ] Ruby 1.8.2 array of hash entries functions incorrectly — "David A. Black" <dblack@...> 2005/03/10

Hi --

[#4554] Re: [ ruby-Bugs-1613 ] Ruby 1.8.2 array of hash entries functions incorrectly — Tom Copeland <tom@...> 2005/03/10

On Thu, 2005-03-10 at 23:22 +0900, David A. Black wrote:

[#4555] proc and block local variables causes a [BUG] — URABE Shyouhei <s-urabe@...>

Maybe I just don't understand what is happening to the CVS but...

2 messages 2005/03/10

[#4556] Re: proc and block local variables causes a [BUG] — Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@...> 2005/03/10

Hi,

[#4557] Time.c on Win32 — Richard Kilmer <rich@...>

Hope this is not noise for this list, but could someone explain why we

2 messages 2005/03/10

[#4558] Re: Time.c on Win32 — Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@...> 2005/03/10

Hi,

[#4559] Segmentation Fault with cygwin on winxp while running Instiki — noreply@...

Bugs item #1615, was opened at 2005-03-10 16:50

1 message 2005/03/10

[#4560] off_t weirdness — Nikolai Weibull <mailing-lists.ruby-core@...>

Try this on a Linux+glibc+GCC system:

3 messages 2005/03/13

[#4562] Re: off_t weirdness — Charles Mills <cmills@...> 2005/03/13

On Mar 13, 2005, at 8:31 AM, Nikolai Weibull wrote:

[#4563] Re: off_t weirdness — Charles Mills <cmills@...> 2005/03/13

On Mar 13, 2005, at 2:46 PM, Charles Mills wrote:

[#4561] rb_reg_quote weirdness — Nikolai Weibull <mailing-lists.ruby-core@...>

(Two weirdnesses in one day.)

5 messages 2005/03/13

[#4564] Re: rb_reg_quote weirdness — Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@...> 2005/03/14

Hi,

[#4565] Re: rb_reg_quote weirdness — Sam Roberts <sroberts@...> 2005/03/15

Quoting matz@ruby-lang.org, on Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 02:35:31AM +0900:

[#4566] Re: rb_reg_quote weirdness — Nikolai Weibull <mailing-lists.ruby-core@...> 2005/03/15

* Sam Roberts (Mar 15, 2005 13:00):

[#4568] Re: rb_reg_quote weirdness — Sam Roberts <sroberts@...> 2005/03/15

Quoting mailing-lists.ruby-core@rawuncut.elitemail.org, on Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 09:26:12PM +0900:

[#4567] Immutable Ropes — Nikolai Weibull <mailing-lists.ruby-core@...>

Note how I didn't write "Immutable Strings" in the subject.

8 messages 2005/03/15

[#4573] Re: Immutable Ropes — Mathieu Bouchard <matju@...> 2005/03/15

[#4574] Re: Immutable Ropes — Nikolai Weibull <mailing-lists.ruby-core@...> 2005/03/15

* Mathieu Bouchard (Mar 15, 2005 19:50):

[#4607] Re: Immutable Ropes — Mathieu Bouchard <matju@...> 2005/03/21

[#4609] Re: Immutable Ropes — Nikolai Weibull <mailing-lists.ruby-core@...> 2005/03/21

* Mathieu Bouchard (Mar 21, 2005 23:50):

[#4569] Re: Immutable Ropes — Sam Roberts <sroberts@...> 2005/03/15

It would be useful in decoding large files like iCalendars or .vcf

[#4571] Re: Immutable Ropes — Nikolai Weibull <mailing-lists.ruby-core@...> 2005/03/15

* Sam Roberts (Mar 15, 2005 14:40):

[#4570] Re: Immutable Ropes — Alexander Kellett <ruby-lists@...> 2005/03/15

On Mar 15, 2005, at 2:18 PM, Nikolai Weibull wrote:

[#4572] RDoc - :nodoc: and macro in C — nobu.nokada@...

Hi,

1 message 2005/03/15

[#4575] Allowing "?" in struct members — "Berger, Daniel" <Daniel.Berger@...>

Hi all,

8 messages 2005/03/16

[#4577] Re: Allowing "?" in struct members — Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@...> 2005/03/17

Hi,

[#4578] Re: Allowing "?" in struct members — Florian Gro<florgro@...> 2005/03/17

Yukihiro Matsumoto wrote:

[#4579] Re: Allowing "?" in struct members — Nathaniel Talbott <ntalbott@...> 2005/03/17

On Thu, 17 Mar 2005 23:09:56 +0900, Florian Gro<florgro@gmail.com> wrote:

[#4580] Re: Allowing "?" in struct members — Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@...> 2005/03/17

Hi,

[#4582] Re: Allowing "?" in struct members — Florian Gro<florgro@...> 2005/03/17

Yukihiro Matsumoto wrote:

[#4585] Re: Allowing "?" in struct members — Mathieu Bouchard <matju@...> 2005/03/18

[#4586] Re: Allowing "?" in struct members — Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@...> 2005/03/18

[#4576] Re: Allowing "?" in struct members — "Berger, Daniel" <Daniel.Berger@...>

Hi all,

1 message 2005/03/16

[#4581] Re: Allowing "?" in struct members — "Berger, Daniel" <Daniel.Berger@...>

> -----Original Message-----

1 message 2005/03/17

[#4583] webrick server sometimes bus errors - sometimes hangs — noreply@...

Bugs item #1641, was opened at 2005-03-17 14:48

1 message 2005/03/17

[#4584] Re: Allowing "?" in struct members — Daniel Berger <djberg96@...>

1 message 2005/03/17

[#4587] 0**0==1? — Bertram Scharpf <lists@...>

Hi,

6 messages 2005/03/19

[#4588] Re: 0**0==1? — Christian Neukirchen <chneukirchen@...> 2005/03/19

Bertram Scharpf <lists@bertram-scharpf.de> writes:

[#4589] Re: 0**0==1? — Alexandru Popescu <alexandru.popescu@...> 2005/03/19

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[#4615] Re: 0**0==1? — Johan Holmberg <holmberg@...> 2005/03/23

On Sat, 19 Mar 2005, Alexandru Popescu wrote:

[#4590] Re: 0**0==1? — Bertram Scharpf <lists@...> 2005/03/19

Hi,

[#4591] Re: 0**0==1? — Mathieu Bouchard <matju@...> 2005/03/20

[#4592] soap4r and nws.noaa.gov — tsuraan <tsuraan@...>

I'm not sure if this is the right place to ask this, but has anyone

2 messages 2005/03/20

[#4593] Re: soap4r and nws.noaa.gov — Sam Roberts <sroberts@...> 2005/03/20

Quoting tsuraan@xyons.net, on Sun, Mar 20, 2005 at 10:27:58AM +0900:

[#4594] bug fixes and extensions to resolv.rb for mDNS support — Sam Roberts <sroberts@...>

Fyi, net-mdns-0.1 contains modified versions of resolv.rb and

1 message 2005/03/20

[#4595] New block syntax — Daniel Amelang <daniel.amelang@...>

I'm really sorry if this isn't the place to talk about this. I've

25 messages 2005/03/21

[#4597] Re: New block syntax — Florian Gro<florgro@...> 2005/03/21

Daniel Amelang wrote:

[#4598] Re: New block syntax — Michael Walter <michael.walter@...> 2005/03/21

On Mon, 21 Mar 2005 22:42:01 +0900, Florian Gro<florgro@gmail.com> wrote:

[#4599] Re: New block syntax — Alexandru Popescu <alexandru.popescu@...> 2005/03/21

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[#4600] Re: New block syntax — Florian Gro<florgro@...> 2005/03/21

Michael Walter wrote:

[#4606] Re: New block syntax — "David A. Black" <dblack@...> 2005/03/21

Hi --

[#4629] Re: New block syntax — "Sean E. Russell" <ser@...> 2005/03/30

On Monday 21 March 2005 16:17, David A. Black wrote:

[#4631] Re: New block syntax — "David A. Black" <dblack@...> 2005/03/30

Hi --

[#4633] Re: New block syntax — Daniel Amelang <daniel.amelang@...> 2005/03/31

Hey David, I think that we've had some misunderstandings due to

[#4634] Re: New block syntax — "David A. Black" <dblack@...> 2005/03/31

Hi --

[#4635] Re: New block syntax — Daniel Amelang <daniel.amelang@...> 2005/03/31

> I prefer that the constructor (and the person reading the code from

[#4639] Re: New block syntax — "Sean E. Russell" <ser@...> 2005/03/31

On Wednesday 30 March 2005 20:55, David A. Black wrote:

[#4641] Re: New block syntax — "David A. Black" <dblack@...> 2005/03/31

Hi --

[#4642] Re: New block syntax — Florian Gro<florgro@...> 2005/03/31

David A. Black wrote:

[#4651] Re: New block syntax — Christian Neukirchen <chneukirchen@...> 2005/04/02

Florian Gro<florgro@gmail.com> writes:

[#4658] Re: New block syntax — Mathieu Bouchard <matju@...> 2005/04/04

[#4660] Re: New block syntax — Christian Neukirchen <chneukirchen@...> 2005/04/04

Mathieu Bouchard <matju@artengine.ca> writes:

[#4644] Re: New block syntax — "David A. Black" <dblack@...> 2005/03/31

Hi --

[#4640] Re: New block syntax — Alexander Kellett <ruby-lists@...> 2005/03/31

On Thursday 31 March 2005 13:53, Sean E. Russell wrote:

[#4638] Re: New block syntax — "Sean E. Russell" <ser@...> 2005/03/31

On Wednesday 30 March 2005 08:04, David A. Black wrote:

[#4628] Re: New block syntax — "Sean E. Russell" <ser@...> 2005/03/30

On Sunday 20 March 2005 21:31, Daniel Amelang wrote:

[#4630] Re: New block syntax — "David A. Black" <dblack@...> 2005/03/30

Hi --

[#4637] Re: New block syntax — "Sean E. Russell" <ser@...> 2005/03/31

On Wednesday 30 March 2005 07:55, David A. Black wrote:

[#4646] Re: New block syntax — Austin Ziegler <halostatue@...> 2005/03/31

On Mar 31, 2005 6:44 AM, Sean E. Russell <ser@germane-software.com> wrote:

[#4643] Re: New block syntax — "David A. Black" <dblack@...> 2005/03/31

On Thu, 31 Mar 2005, Sean E. Russell wrote:

[#4596] Sorry — Daniel Amelang <daniel.amelang@...>

Whoops, I realize now that my last post should have gone to ruby-dev, sorry!

1 message 2005/03/21

[#4601] Re: New block syntax — "Berger, Daniel" <Daniel.Berger@...>

> -----Original Message-----

5 messages 2005/03/21

[#4603] Re: New block syntax — Mathieu Bouchard <matju@...> 2005/03/21

[#4610] Re: New block syntax — Florian Gro<florgro@...> 2005/03/22

Mathieu Bouchard wrote:

[#4613] Re: New block syntax — Ryan Davis <ryand-ruby@...> 2005/03/22

[#4602] Re: New block syntax — Florian Gro<florgro@...> 2005/03/21

Berger, Daniel wrote:

[#4604] Re: New block syntax — "Berger, Daniel" <Daniel.Berger@...>

> -----Original Message-----

3 messages 2005/03/21

[#4605] Re: New block syntax — Alexander Kellett <ruby-lists@...> 2005/03/21

On Mar 21, 2005, at 9:49 PM, Berger, Daniel wrote:

[#4608] Re: New block syntax — Gavin Sinclair <gsinclair@...> 2005/03/21

On Tuesday, March 22, 2005, 8:02:00 AM, Alexander wrote:

[#4611] want_object? - possible? — "Berger, Daniel" <Daniel.Berger@...>

Hi all,

4 messages 2005/03/22

[#4616] Re: want_object? - possible? — Austin Ziegler <halostatue@...> 2005/03/24

On Wed, 23 Mar 2005 02:38:54 +0900, Berger, Daniel

[#4714] Re: want_object? - possible? — Mark Hubbart <discordantus@...> 2005/04/14

On 3/24/05, Austin Ziegler <halostatue@gmail.com> wrote:

[#4618] Re: want_object? - possible? — nobu.nokada@... 2005/03/24

Hi,

[#4612] URI.parse and Socket.getaddrinfo don't cooperate with IPv6 addresses — Sam Roberts <sroberts@...>

irb(main):002:0> URI.parse("http://[::1]").host

1 message 2005/03/22

[#4614] Re: New block syntax — Daniel Amelang <daniel.amelang@...>

I fear that my mistake in posting to the wrong list has polluted

1 message 2005/03/22

[#4617] Re: want_object? - possible? — "Berger, Daniel" <Daniel.Berger@...>

> -----Original Message-----

1 message 2005/03/24

[#4619] Re: want_object? - possible? — Daniel Berger <djberg96@...>

--- nobu.nokada@softhome.net wrote:

9 messages 2005/03/25

[#4620] Re: want_object? - possible? — "David A. Black" <dblack@...> 2005/03/25

Hi --

[#4711] Re: want_object? - possible? — Mark Hubbart <discordantus@...> 2005/04/14

On 3/24/05, David A. Black <dblack@wobblini.net> wrote:

[#4717] Re: want_object? - possible? — "David A. Black" <dblack@...> 2005/04/14

Hi --

[#4718] Re: want_object? - possible? — Mark Hubbart <discordantus@...> 2005/04/15

On 4/14/05, David A. Black <dblack@wobblini.net> wrote:

[#4719] return_value? [Was: Re: want_object? - possible?] — Eric Hodel <drbrain@...7.net> 2005/04/15

On 14 Apr 2005, at 22:20, Mark Hubbart wrote:

[#4724] Re: return_value? [Was: Re: want_object? - possible?] — Mark Hubbart <discordantus@...> 2005/04/15

On 4/15/05, Eric Hodel <drbrain@segment7.net> wrote:

[#4725] Re: return_value? [Was: Re: want_object? - possible?] — "David A. Black" <dblack@...> 2005/04/15

On Sat, 16 Apr 2005, Mark Hubbart wrote:

[#4727] Re: return_value? [Was: Re: want_object? - possible?] — Mark Hubbart <discordantus@...> 2005/04/15

On 4/15/05, David A. Black <dblack@wobblini.net> wrote:

[#4621] [PATCH] Bugfixes to ripper HEAD - broken depend, and regexp_literal lacks options — noreply@...

Bugs item #1688, was opened at 2005-03-25 22:01

1 message 2005/03/25

[#4622] tempfile.rb — Tilman Sauerbeck <tilman@...>

Hi,

4 messages 2005/03/26

[#4786] Re: [PATCH] tempfile.rb — Tilman Sauerbeck <tilman@...> 2005/04/25

Tilman Sauerbeck <tilman@code-monkey.de> [2005-03-27 02:49]:

[#4788] Re: [PATCH] tempfile.rb — nobu.nokada@... 2005/04/25

Hi,

[#4789] Re: [PATCH] tempfile.rb — Tilman Sauerbeck <tilman@...> 2005/04/25

nobu.nokada@softhome.net <nobu.nokada@softhome.net> [2005-04-25 23:27]:

[#4623] getRootWindow() error — noreply@...

Bugs item #1691, was opened at 2005-03-28 12:10

3 messages 2005/03/28

[#4624] Re: [ ruby-Bugs-1691 ] getRootWindow() error — Lyle Johnson <lyle.johnson@...> 2005/03/28

On Mon, 28 Mar 2005 19:15:49 +0900, noreply@rubyforge.org

[#4625] Re: [ ruby-Bugs-1691 ] getRootWindow() error — Tom Copeland <tom@...> 2005/03/28

On Mon, 2005-03-28 at 22:54 +0900, Lyle Johnson wrote:

[#4626] Is there something wrong with the GC? — "Wim van den Bos" <home@...>

I tried the following script:

1 message 2005/03/28

[#4627] [drb/ssl] Undefined method verbose. — noreply@...

Bugs item #1701, was opened at 2005-03-29 23:21

1 message 2005/03/29

[#4632] net/imap + openssl hangs — noreply@...

Bugs item #1706, was opened at 30/03/2005 23:04

1 message 2005/03/30

[#4636] Minor doc fix (numeric.c) — Emiel van de Laar <emiel@...>

Hi list,

2 messages 2005/03/31

[#4645] Re: Minor doc fix (numeric.c) — Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@...> 2005/03/31

Hi,

[#4647] Re: New block syntax — Mathieu Bouchard <matju@...>

1 message 2005/03/31

[#4648] about REXML::Encoding — speakillof <speakillof@...>

Hi.

15 messages 2005/03/31

[#4659] Re: about REXML::Encoding — "Sean E. Russell" <ser@...> 2005/04/04

On Thursday 31 March 2005 09:44, speakillof wrote:

[#4661] Re: about REXML::Encoding — speakillof <speakillof@...> 2005/04/04

Hi.

[#4684] Re: about REXML::Encoding — "Sean E. Russell" <ser@...> 2005/04/09

I've tested, applied, and committed your Encoding patch, Nobu.

[#4688] Re: about REXML::Encoding — nobu.nokada@... 2005/04/10

Hi,

[#4694] Re: about REXML::Encoding — "Sean E. Russell" <ser@...> 2005/04/11

On Sunday 10 April 2005 08:24, nobu.nokada@softhome.net wrote:

[#4696] Re: about REXML::Encoding — nobu.nokada@... 2005/04/11

Hi,

[#4700] Re: about REXML::Encoding — "Sean E. Russell" <ser@...> 2005/04/13

On Monday 11 April 2005 09:16, nobu.nokada@softhome.net wrote:

[#4701] Re: about REXML::Encoding — nobu.nokada@... 2005/04/13

Hi,

[#4695] Re: about REXML::Encoding — "Sean E. Russell" <ser@...> 2005/04/11

On Sunday 10 April 2005 08:24, nobu.nokada@softhome.net wrote:

[#4697] Re: about REXML::Encoding — nobu.nokada@... 2005/04/11

Hi,

[#4702] ICONV.rb and other encodings (about REXML::Encoding) — speakillof <speakillof@...> 2005/04/13

Thank you for adopting nobu's patch.

[#4703] Re: ICONV.rb and other encodings (about REXML::Encoding) — Vincent Isambart <vincent.isambart@...> 2005/04/13

Hi,

[#4704] Re: ICONV.rb and other encodings (about REXML::Encoding) — speakillof <speakillof@...> 2005/04/13

> > By the way, I have one proposal.

[#4705] Re: ICONV.rb and other encodings (about REXML::Encoding) — Vincent Isambart <vincent.isambart@...> 2005/04/13

Hi,

Re: 0**0==1?

From: Bertram Scharpf <lists@...>

Date: 2005-03-19 21:12:37 UTC

List: ruby-core #4590

Hi,

Am Samstag, 19. M舐 2005, 22:00:57 +0900 schrieb Christian Neukirchen:
> Bertram Scharpf <lists@bertram-scharpf.de> writes:
> 
> > this is difficult to feed Google with:
> >
> >>> 0**0
> > => 1
> >>> 0**0.0
> > => 1.0
> >>> 0.0**0
> > => 1.0
> >>> 0.0**0.0
> > => 1.0
> >>> 
> >
> > Shouldn't the result be a NaN?
> 
> Interesting... Perl and Python say 0**0 is 1, Maxima (that should know
> better) says 0 but generates an error...
> 
> To quote http://mathworld.wolfram.com/ExponentLaws.html:
> > The definition 0**0=1 is sometimes used to simplify formulas, but it
> > should be kept in mind that this equality is a definition and not a
> > fundamental mathematical truth (Knuth 1992; Knuth 1997, p. 56).

Ah, okay. It's surely a matter of taste, but I would like to
say these definitions, 0 _and_ 1, are useful in languages
that cannot depict an illegal/undefined result.

Bertram


-- 
Bertram Scharpf
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