[#14464] who uses Python or Ruby, and for what? — ellard2@...01.fas.harvard.edu (-11,3-3562,3-3076)

A while ago I posted a request for people to share their experiences

12 messages 2001/05/01

[#14555] Ruby as a Mac OS/X scripting language — Dave Thomas <Dave@...>

10 messages 2001/05/02

[#14557] Arggg Bitten by the block var scope feature!!! — Wayne Scott <wscott@...>

13 messages 2001/05/02

[#14598] Re: Arggg Bitten by the block var scope feature!!! — "Conrad Schneiker" <schneik@...>

# On Thu, 3 May 2001, Wayne Scott wrote:

9 messages 2001/05/03

[#14636] Yet another "About private methods" question — Eric Jacoboni <jacoboni@...2.fr>

I'm still trying to figure out the semantics of private methods in Ruby.

39 messages 2001/05/04
[#14656] Re: Yet another "About private methods" question — Dave Thomas <Dave@...> 2001/05/04

Eric Jacoboni <jaco@teaser.fr> writes:

[#14666] Ruby and Web Applications — "Chris Montgomery" <monty@...> 2001/05/04

Greetings from a newbie,

[#14772] Re: Ruby and Web Applications — Jim Freeze <jim@...> 2001/05/07

On Sat, 5 May 2001, Chris Montgomery wrote:

[#14710] Why's Ruby so slow in this case? — Stefan Matthias Aust <sma@3plus4.de>

Sure, Ruby, being interpreted, is slower than a compiled language.

12 messages 2001/05/05

[#14881] Class/Module Information — "John Kaurin" <jkaurin@...>

It is possible to modify the following code to produce

18 messages 2001/05/09

[#15034] Re: calling .inspect on array/hash causes core dump — ts <decoux@...>

>>>>> "A" == Andreas Riedl <viisi@chello.at> writes:

15 messages 2001/05/12

[#15198] Re: Q: GUI framework with direct drawing ca pabilities? — Steve Tuckner <SAT@...>

Would it be a good idea to develop a pure Ruby GUI framework built on top of

13 messages 2001/05/15

[#15234] Pluggable sorting - How would you do it? — "Hal E. Fulton" <hal9000@...>

Hello all,

16 messages 2001/05/16

[#15549] ColdFusion for Ruby — "Michael Dinowitz" <mdinowit@...2000.com>

I don't currently use Ruby. To tell the truth, I have no real reason to. I'd

12 messages 2001/05/22

[#15569] I like ruby-chan ... — Rob Armstrong <rob@...>

Ruby is more human(e) than Python. We already have too many animals :-).

15 messages 2001/05/23

[#15601] How to avoid spelling mistakes of variable names — ndrochak@... (Nick Drochak)

Since Ruby does not require a variable to be declared, do people find

13 messages 2001/05/23

[#15734] java based interpreter and regexes — "Wayne Blair" <wayne.blair@...>

I have been thinking about the java based ruby interpreter project, and I

48 messages 2001/05/25

[#15804] is it possible to dynamically coerce objects types in Ruby? — mirian@... (Mirian Crzig Lennox)

Greetings to all. I am a newcomer to Ruby and I am exploring the

13 messages 2001/05/27
[#15807] Re: is it possible to dynamically coerce objects types in Ruby? — matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto) 2001/05/27

Hi,

[#15863] Experimental "in" operator for collections — Stefan Matthias Aust <sma@3plus4.de>

There's one thing where I prefer Python over Ruby. Testing whether an

13 messages 2001/05/28

[#15925] Re: Block arguments vs method arguments — ts <decoux@...>

>>>>> "M" == Mike <mike@lepton.fr> writes:

43 messages 2001/05/29
[#16070] Re: Block arguments vs method arguments — "Hal E. Fulton" <hal9000@...> 2001/05/31

----- Original Message -----

[#16081] Re: Block arguments vs method arguments — Sean Russell <ser@...> 2001/05/31

On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 11:53:17AM +0900, Hal E. Fulton wrote:

[#16088] Re: Block arguments vs method arguments — Dan Moniz <dnm@...> 2001/05/31

At 11:01 PM 5/31/2001 +0900, Sean Russell wrote:

[#15954] new keyword idea: tryreturn, tryturn or done — Juha Pohjalainen <voidjump@...>

Hello everyone!

12 messages 2001/05/29

[ruby-talk:15557] Re: new xmp - please test

From: "Wayne Blair" <wayne.blair@...>
Date: 2001-05-22 21:10:05 UTC
List: ruby-talk #15557
Somehow I messed that last one up trying to polish things off.  Sorry I sent
it.  This one seems to be working.  Please test to humor a bozo.

Wayne

module Kernel
  XMP_VERSION = "2001-05-22"
  XMP_DEFAULT_OPTION = ["%l\n    #%r\n", "\n    #   "]

  ###### Start code added by Wayne ######
  def initBuffers
    @buffers = Array.new
    def @buffers.reset
      clear
      @currentIndex = -1
    end

    def @buffers.incrementIndex
      @currentIndex += 1
      push ""
    end

    def @buffers.write(str)
      if @currentIndex < 0
        STDOUT << str
      else
        at(@currentIndex) << str
      end
    end
  end

  def setStdOut
    $defout = STDOUT
  end
  private :setStdOut

  def setBufferOut
    $defout = @buffers
  end
  private :setBufferOut
  ###### End code added by Wayne ######

  def xmpsec(*a) puts *a; end

  def xmp(arg, fmt = XMP_DEFAULT_OPTION[0], sep=XMP_DEFAULT_OPTION[1])

    if fmt
      ###### Begin code added by Wayne ######
      initBuffers if @buffers==nil
      @buffers.reset
      setBufferOut
      ###### End code added by Wayne ######
      fmt = fmt.to_s
      eval("___sep___ = #{sep.inspect}; ___res___ = []", TOPLEVEL_BINDING)
      eval(arg.gsub(/^(.*)\n?/){
             %Q|
             @buffers.incrementIndex  ### Added by Wayne
             begin
        ___res___ << "=> " + (#{$1}).inspect.gsub(/\n^/, ___sep___);
             rescue Exception
               ___res___ << "!! " + $!;
             end|}, TOPLEVEL_BINDING)

      setStdOut  ### Added by Wayne
      arg.split(/\n/).each_with_index{|l,i|
 (puts "\n" ; next) if l =~ /^$/
 res = fmt.gsub(/%l/, l)
 res = res.gsub(/%r/, eval("___res___", TOPLEVEL_BINDING)[i])
 print res
 ### Added by Wayne - adds extra newline to any buffer that is printed
 print(@buffers[i] + "\n") if @buffers[i] && @buffers[i].length>0
      }
    else
      print arg; # eval(arg, TOPLEVEL_BINDING)
    end
    return nil
  end
  alias __xmp__ xmp

end


if __FILE__ == $0

  puts "## EXAMPLE 1"
  xmp "nil.to_i"

  puts ""
  puts "## EXAMPLE 2"
  xmp <<-EOS
  a = "The moon Fly"
  b = [a.split, "TO", "Me"]
  b = b.flatten
  b.sort!
  b.join(" ").capitalize
  EOS

  puts ""
  puts "## EXAMPLE 3"
  xmp <<-EOS, false
  class Foo
    attr :a, true
  end

  EOS

  xmp <<-EOS
  foo = Foo.new
  foo.a
  foo.a = 10
  foo.b
  foo.a
  EOS
end





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