Re: Newbie question

thanks, i will post it there.

On 1/5/06, James Edward Gray II <[e-mail]> wrote:
>
> Jan 5, 2006, at 2:59 PM, mac wrote:
>
> > Hello all and happy new year.
> > I just started learning Ruby. I have good experience in Java and
> > Perl and
> > have read most of the doc on Ruby that I can get my hands on. I
> > started on a
> > project to build the DICOM netwrok library as a way to learn Ruby.
> > I have
> > done quite bit of coding on this project and have a working code.
> > Well when
> > I say quite a bit, it is about 5% done!! What I am looking for is
> > RubyIdioms
> > and if there are better ways of doing things as opposed to what I have
> > already done. Basically DICOM messages are binary and we need to
> > read the
> > data and manipulate byes. We will have to construct integers or
> > floats from
> > bytes or pair of bytes and the next few bytes could be a string
> > etc. I have
> > pasted some part of the code and want your opinion on this. Also,
> > once this
> > project has reached a point where it could be used, I will release
> > it to the
> > community.
>
> You will probably have a lot more luck with answers if you post this
> message to the Ruby Talk mailing list.  This list is mainly just used
> to discuss the internals of the Ruby interpreter.
>
> Hope that helps.
>
> James Edward Gray II
>
>