[#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:01419] Re: Yield

From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2000-02-16 03:33:02 UTC
List: ruby-talk #1419
Hi,

In message "[ruby-talk:01415] Re: Yield"
    on 00/02/15, "Conrad Schneiker" <schneiker@jump.net> writes:

|Could we (the readers of this newsgroup)--in the interest of learn-ability,
|teach-ability, comprehensibility, public friendliness, principle of least
|surprise, not using Perl-like obscurities (e.g. bless), and everything else
|that otherwise makes Ruby great--could we all agree on a better name for the
|yield statement that would also be acceptable to Matz, and which could
|co-exist for a year or so with a depreciated yield?

I always welcome the discussion about better names for `yield' and
`iterator?'  `yield' is the historical name inherited from CLU, which
is the foundation of the concept of iterator.

							matz.

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