[#1215] Tk widget demo; English Tk docs?; Java 1.2 Swing — "Conrad Schneiker" <schneiker@...>
Hi,
7 messages
2000/02/01
[#1218] Trivial FAQ bug — Dave Thomas <Dave@...>
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2000/02/02
[#1229] A vote for old behavior — Dave Thomas <Dave@...>
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2000/02/03
[#1232] Any FAQ requests, updates, ... — Dave Thomas <Dave@...>
6 messages
2000/02/05
[#1233] Singleton classes — Dave Thomas <Dave@...>
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2000/02/05
[#1263] Draft of the updated Ruby FAQ — Dave Thomas <Dave@...>
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2000/02/08
[#1307] Ruby/GTK 0.23 released — Hiroshi IGARASHI <igarashi@...>
Hi all,
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2000/02/11
[#1470] Re: Ruby/GTK 0.23 released
— "Conrad Schneiker" <schneiker@...>
2000/02/17
From: Hiroshi IGARASHI <igarashi@ueda.info.waseda.ac.jp>
[#1503] Re: Ruby/GTK 0.23 released
— Yasushi Shoji <yashi@...>
2000/02/19
From: "Conrad Schneiker" <schneiker@jump.net>
[#1506] Re: Ruby/GTK 0.23 released
— Ian Main <imain@...>
2000/02/19
On Fri, Feb 18, 2000 at 09:37:27PM -0500, Yasushi Shoji wrote:
[#1322] FAQ: Ruby acronyms — "Conrad Schneiker" <schneiker@...>
In the spirit of TABWTDI (there are better ways to do it), I'd like to
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2000/02/12
[#1341] Vim syntax file — Mirko Nasato <mirko.nasato@...>
Hi,
7 messages
2000/02/14
[#1448] Re: Vim syntax file
— Reimer Behrends <behrends@...>
2000/02/16
On Mon, Feb 14, 2000 at 05:44:39PM +0100, Mirko Nasato wrote:
[#1354] Say hi (bis) — Pixel <pixel_@...>
hi all,
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2000/02/15
[#1355] nice sample for functional stuff — Pixel <pixel_@...>
what about having map in standard (and map_index too)?
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2000/02/15
[#1373] Ruby Language Reference Manual--Glossary — "Conrad Schneiker" <schneiker@...>
I was going to print the Ruby Language Reference Manual when I noticed that
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2000/02/15
[#1376] Re: Scripting versus programming — Andrew Hunt <andy@...>
Conrad writes:
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2000/02/15
[#1379] Re: Yield — Andrew Hunt <andy@...>
>From: "Conrad Schneiker" <schneiker@jump.net>
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2000/02/15
[#1384] Re: Say Hi — mengx@...
My suggestion was to try to find a more comfortable method name (to me, and
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2000/02/15
[#1392] Re: Some Questions - Parameterised Types / Invariants — Andrew Hunt <andy@...>
>1. Parameterised Types / Template Classes
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2000/02/15
[#1398] Bignum aset — Andrew Hunt <Andy@...>
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2000/02/15
[#1488] Discussion happens on news.groups — Clemens Hintze <c.hintze@...>
Hi,
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2000/02/18
[#1508] Ruby/GTK and the mainloop — Ian Main <imain@...>
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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
[#1523] Re: Ruby: PLEASE use comp.lang.misc for all Ruby programming/technical questions/discussions!!!!
— Yasushi Shoji <yashi@...>
2000/02/19
From: "Conrad Schneiker" <schneiker@jump.net>
[#1528] ruby <=> python — Quinn Dunkan <quinn@...>
Hello! I'm new to ruby-talk, and mostly new to ruby. I'm making a document
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2000/02/20
[#1551] Ruby thread scheduling buglet — Ian Main <imain@...>
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2000/02/24
[#1569] Re: Ruby: constructors, new and initialise — Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@...>
The following message is a courtesy copy of an article
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2000/02/25
[#1591] Certain char's not recognized by "." in regex? — Wes Nakamura <wknaka@...>
8 messages
2000/02/27
[#1592] Race condition in Singleton — Dave Thomas <Dave@...>
5 messages
2000/02/27
[ruby-talk:01612] Re: mutator methods
From:
Dave Thomas <Dave@...>
Date:
2000-02-28 03:15:51 UTC
List:
ruby-talk #1612
The following message is a courtesy copy of an article that has been posted to comp.lang.misc as well. "Conrad Schneiker" <schneiker@jump.net> writes: > From: Dave Thomas <Dave@thomases.com> > > > "Conrad Schneiker" <schneiker@jump.net> writes: > > > > > Is there any reason that all mutator methods should not be denoted by > having > > > a '!'? > > > > arr[1]=! 1 > > > > is a little ugly! > > Good point. > > But what I actually had in mind was names of mutator methods with predefined > English names or (more or less) alphanumeric user-defined names. I know - I was being a little silly. The real problem I see with the change is that it may lead to confusion over existing methods. Right now, if there's a 'chop' and a 'chop!', you know that the chop! variant is a mutator. However, if we rename all mutators to end in !, then for a while we'll have (say) Array.filter and Array.filter!. Based on the chop example, people might reasonably expect 'filter' to return a copy, and 'filter!' to be a mutator. They'd be surprised the first time 'filter' altered an array they thought was safe. I think if the convention had been adopted from the start, it would have been good. I think for new classes, it's a good convention to adopt. For the existing stuff, I'm not so sure the change doesn't bring more confusion than it saves. But... I'm happy to be convinced the other way. Regards Dave