[#8136] Confused exception handling in Continuation Context — "Robert Dober" <robert.dober@...>

Hi all

13 messages 2006/07/06

[#8248] One-Click Installer: MinGW? or VC2005? — "Curt Hibbs" <ml.chibbs@...>

I just posted this to ruby-talk. But I would also like to discuss this

33 messages 2006/07/18
[#8264] Re: One-Click Installer: MinGW? or VC2005? — Charlie Savage <cfis@...> 2006/07/19

From my experience using both tool chains on Windows (for the ruby-prof

[#8266] Re: One-Click Installer: MinGW? or VC2005? — "Curt Hibbs" <ml.chibbs@...> 2006/07/19

Tim, I'm going to top reply since your post was so long. I'm interested in

[#8267] Re: One-Click Installer: MinGW? or VC2005? — Charlie Savage <cfis@...> 2006/07/19

> Tim, I'm going to top reply since your post was so long. I'm interested in

[#8271] my sandboxing extension!! — why the lucky stiff <ruby-core@...>

I have (what feels like) very exciting news. I finally sat down to code up my

17 messages 2006/07/19

[#8430] Re: doc patch: weakref. — "Berger, Daniel" <Daniel.Berger@...>

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

19 messages 2006/07/28
[#8434] Re: doc patch: weakref. — Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@...> 2006/07/29

Hi,

[#8436] Re: doc patch: weakref. — Daniel Berger <djberg96@...> 2006/07/29

Yukihiro Matsumoto wrote:

[#8437] Re: doc patch: weakref. — Mauricio Fernandez <mfp@...> 2006/07/29

On Sat, Jul 29, 2006 at 07:37:24PM +0900, Daniel Berger wrote:

[#8441] Inconsistency in scoping during module_eval? — "Charles O Nutter" <headius@...>

I have the following code:

18 messages 2006/07/30
[#8442] Re: Inconsistency in scoping during module_eval? — nobu@... 2006/07/30

Hi,

[#8443] Re: Inconsistency in scoping during module_eval? — "Charles O Nutter" <headius@...> 2006/07/30

Why does this:

[#8445] Re: Inconsistency in scoping during module_eval? — Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@...> 2006/07/30

Hi,

[#8454] Re: Inconsistency in scoping during module_eval? — "Charles O Nutter" <headius@...> 2006/07/31

So to clarify...

Re: doc patch: readbytes.rb

From: "Daniel Berger" <Daniel.Berger@...>
Date: 2006-07-28 16:48:27 UTC
List: ruby-core #8424
Hugh Sasse wrote:
> A patch against the stable snapshot.
> 
> Improve the documentation for IO#readbytes. 
> 
>         HTH
>         Hugh
> 
> --- ./lib/readbytes.rb.orig	1999-08-13 06:45:16.000000000 +0100
> +++ ./lib/readbytes.rb	2006-07-28 16:45:51.696754000 +0100
> @@ -12,6 +12,11 @@
>  end
>  
>  class IO
> +  # reads exactly n bytes from the IO stream.
> +  # If the data read is nil, raises EOFError.
> +  # If the data read is too short, raises TruncatedDataError.
> +  # The method TruncatedDataError#data may be used to obtain
> +  # the truncated message.
>    def readbytes(n)
>      str = read(n)
>      if str == nil
> 

Minor tweak: "Reads exactly +n+ bytes from the IO stream ..."
               ^             ^ ^

Putting emphasis on method arguments seems to be the standard.

Many thanks for these patches, btw.

- Dan


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