[#10209] Market for XML Web stuff — Matt Sergeant <matt@...>

I'm trying to get a handle on what the size of the market for AxKit would be

15 messages 2001/02/01

[#10238] RFC: RubyVM (long) — Robert Feldt <feldt@...>

Hi,

20 messages 2001/02/01
[#10364] Re: RFC: RubyVM (long) — Mathieu Bouchard <matju@...> 2001/02/05

[#10708] Suggestion for threading model — Stephen White <spwhite@...>

I've been playing around with multi-threading. I notice that there are

11 messages 2001/02/11

[#10853] Re: RubyChangeRequest #U002: new proper name for Hash#indexes, Array#indexes — "Mike Wilson" <wmwilson01@...>

10 messages 2001/02/14

[#11037] to_s and << — "Brent Rowland" <tarod@...>

list = [1, 2.3, 'four', false]

15 messages 2001/02/18

[#11094] Re: Summary: RCR #U002 - proper new name fo r indexes — Aleksi Niemel<aleksi.niemela@...>

> On Mon, 19 Feb 2001, Yukihiro Matsumoto wrote:

12 messages 2001/02/19

[#11131] Re: Summary: RCR #U002 - proper new name fo r indexes — "Conrad Schneiker" <schneik@...>

Robert Feldt wrote:

10 messages 2001/02/19

[#11251] Programming Ruby is now online — Dave Thomas <Dave@...>

36 messages 2001/02/21

[#11469] XML-RPC and KDE — schuerig@... (Michael Schuerig)

23 messages 2001/02/24
[#11490] Re: XML-RPC and KDE — schuerig@... (Michael Schuerig) 2001/02/24

Michael Neumann <neumann@s-direktnet.de> wrote:

[#11491] Negative Reviews for Ruby and Programming Ruby — Jim Freeze <jim@...> 2001/02/24

Hi all:

[#11633] RCR: shortcut for instance variable initialization — Dave Thomas <Dave@...>

13 messages 2001/02/26

[#11652] RE: RCR: shortcut for instance variable initialization — Michael Davis <mdavis@...>

I like it!

14 messages 2001/02/27

[#11700] Starting Once Again — Ron Jeffries <ronjeffries@...>

OK, I'm starting again with Ruby. I'm just assuming that I've

31 messages 2001/02/27
[#11712] RE: Starting Once Again — "Aaron Hinni" <aaron@...> 2001/02/27

> 2. So far I think running under TextPad will be better than running

[#11726] Re: Starting Once Again — Aleksi Niemel<zak@...> 2001/02/28

On Wed, 28 Feb 2001, Aaron Hinni wrote:

[ruby-talk:11069] Re: to_s and <<

From: "Hal E. Fulton" <hfulton@...>
Date: 2001-02-18 23:43:44 UTC
List: ruby-talk #11069
----- Original Message -----
From: Dave Thomas <Dave@PragmaticProgrammer.com>
To: ruby-talk ML <ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org>
Sent: Sunday, February 18, 2001 3:02 PM
Subject: [ruby-talk:11067] Re: to_s and <<


> "Hal E. Fulton" <hal9000@hypermetrics.com> writes:
>
> > > And yet, this can't be the whole story, since the TypeErrors do
> > > happen.  Further detective work (and/or clarification by those ahead
> > > of me in the process :-) required....
> >
> > I've wondered about this too... Dave, could this be considered a bug
> > in The Book?
>
> Perhaps, but I don't think so. to_str is not the same as to_s. to_str
> only works on things that pretend to be Strings in the first place
> (String and Exception are two basic classes), so you'll get a type
> error if you use anything else.
>

Well, if you look at the << method, it just says it takes "anObject"...
I don't recall seeing anything about to_str (or to_s) anywhere...

I thought at first that I could use an arbitrary object there... but I guess
you have to define to_str if you want to do that?

Hal



In This Thread