[#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: "David A. Black" <dblack@...>
Date: 2005-08-23 18:40:31 UTC
List: ruby-core #5655
Hi --

On Wed, 24 Aug 2005, Daniel Berger wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> Ruby 1.8.2
> Solaris 10
>
> 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.
>
> Am I wrong?  Thoughts?

I see a number of them in my home directory, including:

./.mime.types
./.lynx.cfg
./.ruby.vim
./ruby/.rbconfig.time
./rubycentral/html/.index.html.swp

and a ton of Emacs and svn save files of various kinds.


David

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