[#1215] Tk widget demo; English Tk docs?; Java 1.2 Swing — "Conrad Schneiker" <schneiker@...>
Hi,
[#1218] Trivial FAQ bug — Dave Thomas <Dave@...>
[#1229] A vote for old behavior — Dave Thomas <Dave@...>
[#1232] Any FAQ requests, updates, ... — Dave Thomas <Dave@...>
[#1233] Singleton classes — Dave Thomas <Dave@...>
[#1263] Draft of the updated Ruby FAQ — Dave Thomas <Dave@...>
[#1307] Ruby/GTK 0.23 released — Hiroshi IGARASHI <igarashi@...>
Hi all,
From: Hiroshi IGARASHI <igarashi@ueda.info.waseda.ac.jp>
From: "Conrad Schneiker" <schneiker@jump.net>
On Fri, Feb 18, 2000 at 09:37:27PM -0500, Yasushi Shoji wrote:
[#1322] FAQ: Ruby acronyms — "Conrad Schneiker" <schneiker@...>
In the spirit of TABWTDI (there are better ways to do it), I'd like to
[#1341] Vim syntax file — Mirko Nasato <mirko.nasato@...>
Hi,
On Mon, Feb 14, 2000 at 05:44:39PM +0100, Mirko Nasato wrote:
[#1354] Say hi (bis) — Pixel <pixel_@...>
hi all,
[#1355] nice sample for functional stuff — Pixel <pixel_@...>
what about having map in standard (and map_index too)?
[#1373] Ruby Language Reference Manual--Glossary — "Conrad Schneiker" <schneiker@...>
I was going to print the Ruby Language Reference Manual when I noticed that
[#1376] Re: Scripting versus programming — Andrew Hunt <andy@...>
Conrad writes:
[#1379] Re: Yield — Andrew Hunt <andy@...>
>From: "Conrad Schneiker" <schneiker@jump.net>
[#1384] Re: Say Hi — mengx@...
My suggestion was to try to find a more comfortable method name (to me, and
[#1392] Re: Some Questions - Parameterised Types / Invariants — Andrew Hunt <andy@...>
>1. Parameterised Types / Template Classes
[#1398] Bignum aset — Andrew Hunt <Andy@...>
[#1488] Discussion happens on news.groups — Clemens Hintze <c.hintze@...>
Hi,
[#1508] Ruby/GTK and the mainloop — Ian Main <imain@...>
Hello Ian,
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.))
From: "Conrad Schneiker" <schneiker@jump.net>
[#1528] ruby <=> python — Quinn Dunkan <quinn@...>
Hello! I'm new to ruby-talk, and mostly new to ruby. I'm making a document
[#1551] Ruby thread scheduling buglet — Ian Main <imain@...>
[#1569] Re: Ruby: constructors, new and initialise — Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@...>
The following message is a courtesy copy of an article
[#1591] Certain char's not recognized by "." in regex? — Wes Nakamura <wknaka@...>
[#1592] Race condition in Singleton — Dave Thomas <Dave@...>
[ruby-talk:01401] Re: Bignum aset
In message "[ruby-talk:01398] Bignum aset"
on 00/02/15, Andrew Hunt <Andy@Toolshed.Com> writes:
>In class Bignum, there is a very handy method for bit reference ([]).
>But there is no corresponding bit setter ([]=).
>
>Is this deliberate? I need an abritrarily large pile of bits to set and
>test, and this seems like the right place to do it. Should I be using
>some different class instead?
Yes, I heard it is deliberate. An instance of Numeric is a unique
object corresponding to a numeric. And, []= is usually a destructive
method.
Now, for example, imagine what happens by `2[0] = 1'. Will 2 be 3?
So, we can see that this comes from same reason of the lack of ++
operator.
Regards,
-- gotoken