From: Brian Wisti <brianwisti@...>
Date: 2004-09-16T06:13:51+09:00
Subject: Re: Ex-Perl coders: Howz it feel to convert to Ruby?


> Or in irb: 
>   > Array.methods.sort
> => ["&", "*", "+", "-", "<<", "<=>", "==", "===", "=~", "[]", "[]=", 
> "__id__", "__send__", "all?", "any?", "assoc", "at", "class",
> "clear", 
> "clone", "collect", "collect!", "compact", "compact!", "concat",
> "delete", 
> "delete_at", "delete_if", "detect", "display", "dup", "each", 
> "each_index", "each_with_index", "empty?", "entries", "eql?",
> "equal?", 
> "extend", "fetch", "fill", "find", "find_all", "first", "flatten", 
> "flatten!", "freeze", "frozen?", "grep", "hash", "id", "include?", 
> "index", "indexes", "indices", "inject", "insert", "inspect", 
> "instance_eval", "instance_of?", "instance_variable_get", 
> "instance_variable_set", "instance_variables", "is_a?", "join", 
> "kind_of?", "last", "length", "map", "map!", "max", "member?",
> "method", 
> "methods", "min", "nil?", "nitems", "object_id", "pack", "partition",
> 
> "pop", "private_methods", "protected_methods", "public_methods",
> "push", 
> "rassoc", "reject", "reject!", "replace", "respond_to?", "reverse", 
> "reverse!", "reverse_each", "rindex", "select", "send", "shift", 
> "singleton_methods", "size", "slice", "slice!", "sort", "sort!", 
> "sort_by", "taint", "tainted?", "to_a", "to_ary", "to_s",
> "transpose", 
> "type", "uniq", "uniq!", "unshift", "untaint", "values_at", "zip",
> "|"]
> 
> It may not give you all the information about each method, but you
> can 
> often get a pretty good idea from the name - if not, then you can use
> ri 
> to figure it out.
> 

This is one of those situations where I kinda miss Python and its
ability to store and later display the docstring of a function or class
 when requested.

One thing at a time, I suppose.

-- Brian Wisti