[#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:

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[#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:01532] Re: ruby <=> python

From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2000-02-21 04:36:51 UTC
List: ruby-talk #1532
Hi,

I don't have easy mail <-> news gateway, so please forgive me for
replying here only.

In message "[ruby-talk:01529] Re: ruby <=> python"
    on 00/02/20, Yasushi Shoji <yashi@yashi.com> writes:

|> Characters are integers in ruby.
|> 'hello'[0]  -> 104
|
|no, there is only String class. all char is an instance of class
|String.  And, [] is a method in class String to get _char code_.
|
|ah... I noticed that ruby reference manual says:
|
|>    self[nth]
|>        Retrieves the nth character from a string.
|
|this should be fixed.

Hmm, may I describe:

    self[nth]
        Retrieves the nth BYTE value from a string.

Because Strings are actually byte strings in Ruby.

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