From: Gavin Sinclair <gsinclair@...>
Date: 2004-10-04T10:54:07+09:00
Subject: Re: Socket::gethostbyname()

On Monday, October 4, 2004, 6:19:55 AM, CarlosRivera wrote:

> I never would have guessed to have unpacked.  Is there a good 
> explanation of this somewhere?  Also, during the unpack, what is the
> first element supposed to represent?

> For a reference, I am reading the Socket class at:

> http://www.ruby-doc.org/stdlib/

> However, there seems to be no documentation on the method return types.
>   Is something wrong with my browser?  I can see detailed information
> about Net::HTTP.get().

Nothing wrong with your browser.  The standard of docs varies between
packages.

Gavin