[#1263] Draft of the updated Ruby FAQ — Dave Thomas <Dave@...>

33 messages 2000/02/08

[#1376] Re: Scripting versus programming — Andrew Hunt <andy@...>

Conrad writes:

13 messages 2000/02/15

[#1508] Ruby/GTK and the mainloop — Ian Main <imain@...>

17 messages 2000/02/19
[#1544] Re: Ruby/GTK and the mainloop — Yasushi Shoji <yashi@...> 2000/02/23

Hello Ian,

[#1550] Re: Ruby/GTK and the mainloop — Ian Main <imain@...> 2000/02/23

On Wed, Feb 23, 2000 at 02:56:10AM -0500, Yasushi Shoji wrote:

[#1516] Ruby: PLEASE use comp.lang.misc for all Ruby programming/technical questions/discussions!!!! — "Conrad Schneiker" <schneiker@...>

((FYI: This was sent to the Ruby mail list.))

10 messages 2000/02/19

[#1569] Re: Ruby: constructors, new and initialise — Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@...>

The following message is a courtesy copy of an article

12 messages 2000/02/25

[ruby-talk:01240] Re: Singleton classes

From: Dave Thomas <Dave@...>
Date: 2000-02-05 16:42:14 UTC
List: ruby-talk #1240
matz@netlab.co.jp (Yukihiro Matsumoto) writes:

> |It's like we're subclassing the class of an object. How about
> |'anonymous subclass'?
> 
> Hmm, I don't know which is better.  As non native English speaker, I
> have no idea about the nuance of the word `singleton'.

How about 'extension class'  (stretching it thin, I know)...

> |Wouldn't the object be a Proc object?
> 
> Yes, and is closure.  They are same thing in Ruby.

Agreed-I was just suggesting that it might be less confusing not to
call them "closure objects".


Regards


Dave

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