[#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:01461] Re: The return value of Method.arity

From: Dave Thomas <Dave@...>
Date: 2000-02-16 15:37:09 UTC
List: ruby-talk #1461
matz@netlab.co.jp (Yukihiro Matsumoto) writes:

> Oops, it is a bug.  That should not be clear difference between C
> methods and Ruby methods.  It should be
> 
>   methods: n mandatory arguments                +n
>            n mandatory arguments + optional     -n-1
> 
> But C methods have no information about number of mandatory arguments,
> so that arity for all C methods with any optinal arguments return -1.

Many thanks - I'll document it this way (and I'll keep checking the
archive!)

Dave

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