[#5563] Non-overridable and non-redefinable methods — Eric Mahurin <eric_mahurin@...>

Lately, I've been thinking about the future of ruby

44 messages 2005/08/19
[#5564] Re: Non-overridable and non-redefinable methods — Austin Ziegler <halostatue@...> 2005/08/19

On 8/19/05, Eric Mahurin <eric_mahurin@yahoo.com> wrote:

[#5571] Re: Non-overridable and non-redefinable methods — Eric Mahurin <eric_mahurin@...> 2005/08/19

--- Austin Ziegler <halostatue@gmail.com> wrote:

[#5574] Re: Non-overridable and non-redefinable methods — TRANS <transfire@...> 2005/08/20

Just wanted to add a few things.

[#5581] Re: Non-overridable and non-redefinable methods — Austin Ziegler <halostatue@...> 2005/08/20

On 8/19/05, TRANS <transfire@gmail.com> wrote:

[#5583] Re: Non-overridable and non-redefinable methods — "David A. Black" <dblack@...> 2005/08/20

Hi --

[#5585] Re: Non-overridable and non-redefinable methods — Eric Mahurin <eric_mahurin@...> 2005/08/20

--- "David A. Black" <dblack@wobblini.net> wrote:

[#5609] Pathname#walk for traversing path nodes (patch) — ES <ruby-ml@...>

Here is a small addition to Pathname against 1.9, probably suited

20 messages 2005/08/22

Re: File.extname edge case bug?

From: Tilman Sauerbeck <tilman@...>
Date: 2005-08-23 17:56:01 UTC
List: ruby-core #5653
On Wed, 24 Aug 2005 02:24:17 +0900 Daniel Berger <Daniel.Berger@qwest.com> wrote:

> Should File.extname("..") return "" or "."?  It currently returns ".".
> 
> The comments in the source say that it returns an empty string if the 
> string provided as an argument begins with a "." and is the only "." in 
> the string.
> 
> I would argue that any string that begins with a ".", regardless of how 
> many total "." there are in the string, should return an empty string. 
> My opinion is based on years of convention.  I have never, ever seen 
> string that began with "." and had an extension as well.  No one ever 
> does this afaik.

File.extname(".some_app.conf") => ".conf"
Don't break that :)

Not sure about File.extname("..") though.

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