[#13775] Problems with racc rule definitions — Michael Neumann <neumann@...>

15 messages 2001/04/17
[#13795] Re: Problems with racc rule definitions — Minero Aoki <aamine@...> 2001/04/18

Hi,

[#13940] From Guido, with love... — Dave Thomas <Dave@...>

52 messages 2001/04/20

[#13953] regexp — James Ponder <james@...>

Hi, I'm new to ruby and am coming from a perl background - therefore I

19 messages 2001/04/21

[#14033] Distributed Ruby and heterogeneous networks — harryo@... (Harry Ohlsen)

I wrote my first small distributed application yesterday and it worked

15 messages 2001/04/22

[#14040] RCR: getClassFromString method — ptkwt@...1.aracnet.com (Phil Tomson)

It would be nice to have a function that returns a class type given a

20 messages 2001/04/22

[#14130] Re: Ruby mascot proposal — "Conrad Schneiker" <schneik@...>

Guy N. Hurst wrote:

21 messages 2001/04/24
[#14148] Re: Ruby mascot proposal — Stephen White <spwhite@...> 2001/04/24

On Tue, 24 Apr 2001, Conrad Schneiker wrote:

[#14188] Re: Ruby mascot proposal — matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto) 2001/04/25

Hi,

[#14193] Re: Ruby mascot proposal — "W. Kent Starr" <elderburn@...> 2001/04/25

On Tuesday 24 April 2001 23:02, Yukihiro Matsumoto wrote:

[#14138] Re: python on the smalltalk VM — Conrad Schneiker <schneik@...>

FYI: Thought this might be of interest to the JRuby and Ruby/GUI folks.

27 messages 2001/04/24
[#14153] Re: python on the smalltalk VM — Andrew Kuchling <akuchlin@...> 2001/04/24

Conrad Schneiker <schneik@austin.ibm.com> writes:

[#14154] array#flatten! question — Jim Freeze <jim@...> 2001/04/24

Hello.

[#14159] Can I insert into an array — Jim Freeze <jim@...> 2001/04/24

Ok, this may be a dumb question, but, is it possible to insert into an

[#14162] Re: Can I insert into an array — Dave Thomas <Dave@...> 2001/04/24

Jim Freeze <jim@freeze.org> writes:

[#14289] RCR: Array#insert — Shugo Maeda <shugo@...> 2001/04/27

At Wed, 25 Apr 2001 01:28:36 +0900,

[#14221] An or in an if. — Tim Pettman <tjp@...>

Hi there,

18 messages 2001/04/25

[#14267] Re: Ruby mascot proposal — "Conrad Schneiker" <schneik@...>

Danny van Bruggen,

16 messages 2001/04/26

[#14452] How to do it the Ruby-way 3 — Stefan Matthias Aust <sma@3plus4.de>

First a question: Why is

21 messages 2001/04/30

[ruby-talk:13752] Re: methods and types

From: Dave Thomas <Dave@...>
Date: 2001-04-17 13:59:28 UTC
List: ruby-talk #13752
Anders Bengtsson <ndrsbngtssn@yahoo.se> writes:

> This may be an instance of some design pattern about
> strings. When programming in Ruby i often start out
> with string representations of data, and only later
> change it to use a more specific class.

I think that's a good refinement of the process. Ruby allows you to
defer making those kinds of decisions. Not having to decide up front
makes designs more flexible, and encourages experimentation.


Dave

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