[#8484] strptime fails to properly parse certain inputs — <noreply@...>

Bugs item #5263, was opened at 2006-08-01 23:14

13 messages 2006/08/02
[#8485] Re: [ ruby-Bugs-5263 ] strptime fails to properly parse certain inputs — Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@...> 2006/08/02

Hi,

[#8538] Re: [ ruby-Bugs-5263 ] strptime fails to properly parse certain inputs — nobu@... 2006/08/06

Hi,

[#8561] sandbox timers & block scopes — why the lucky stiff <ruby-core@...>

Two puzzles I am trying to solve:

28 messages 2006/08/08
[#8624] Re: sandbox timers & block scopes — why the lucky stiff <ruby-core@...> 2006/08/15

raise ThisDecayingInquisition, "anyone? anyone at all?"

[#8627] Re: sandbox timers & block scopes — MenTaLguY <mental@...> 2006/08/15

On Wed, 2006-08-16 at 00:35 +0900, why the lucky stiff wrote:

[#8628] Re: sandbox timers & block scopes — why the lucky stiff <ruby-core@...> 2006/08/15

On Wed, Aug 16, 2006 at 02:46:30AM +0900, MenTaLguY wrote:

[#8629] Re: sandbox timers & block scopes — "Charles O Nutter" <headius@...> 2006/08/15

On 8/15/06, why the lucky stiff <ruby-core@whytheluckystiff.net> wrote:

[#8690] a ruby-core primer — why the lucky stiff <ruby-core@...>

Hello, all. I've been working on the ruby-core page for the new Ruby site.

21 messages 2006/08/22

Re: Legal operator symbols

From: Mathieu Bouchard <matju@...>
Date: 2006-08-30 06:06:08 UTC
List: ruby-core #8754
On Mon, 28 Aug 2006, Nikolai Weibull wrote:

> Why are :>, :>=, :<=, :< fine as symbols, while := isn't?

Because the parser is designed in a way that the colon prefix without 
double-quotes accepts only characters that form a valid method name as 
accepted by the def keyword. The rest of Ruby doesn't have this 
limitation. To circumvent this, say "=".intern or the more recent syntax 
:"="

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