[#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:01321] Re: Draft of the updated Ruby FAQ

From: Chip Turner <chip@...>
Date: 2000-02-12 21:57:06 UTC
List: ruby-talk #1321
Dave Thomas <Dave@thomases.com> writes:

> "Conrad Schneiker" <schneiker@jump.net> writes:
> 
> > From: Conrad Schneiker <schneiker@jump.net>
> > 
> > > I think that "1.9 Which is correct, Ruby or ruby?" needs to additionally
> > > include and describe a third name, "Ruby!", since Ruby is our method for
> > > changing the programming world for the better, right?
> > 
> > I forgot to mention that I think it would be better to designate
> > "destructive methods" as "change methods" or "replacement methods".
> 
> I must admit I don;t like 'destructive' either. I think some languages 
> call them 'mutators'.

Being strongly versed in other languages, and very new to Ruby, I must
agree that the term mutator has more meaning to me than destructive.
Perhaps destructive is more descriptive, but mutator is definitely the
term used most often to describe the situation I believe.

Chip

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