From: Karl von Laudermann <doodpants@...>
Date: 2005-05-06T03:59:24+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby Editor Plugin for jEdit 0.6 - method completion release

Rob . wrote:
> Alex, I don't get an exception in this case, but I see what you mean.
> The plugin can easily determine the type of the following and provide
> the appropriate method popup list. It should be an easy fix. Are
there
> any others I'm missing apart from these:
>
> irb> {}.class
> => Hash
>
> irb> "".class
> => String
>
> irb> ''.class
> => String
>
> irb> [].class
> => Array

Well, there's this:
irb> //.class
=> Regexp

Not to mention all of the % forms:

irb> %().class
=> String

irb> %q().class
=> String

irb> %q!!.class
=> String

irb> %Q**.class
=> String

irb> %q  .class # Yes, space is a valid delimiter!
=> String

irb> %r##.class
=> Regexp

Including word arrays:

irb> %w<>.class
=> Array

See, this is why the ruby.xml file got so huge in version 0.4, when I
added support for all of these constructs. BTW, I'm not going to insist
that you add support for this one:

irb> %x(echo hello).class
=> String

:-)
Though, I don't know if it's possible for a system command to return
anything other than a string.