From: Gene Tani Date: 2005-12-14T04:32:38+09:00 Subject: Re: How Do I Search Ruby ML? speechexpert wrote: > OK - Here's my issue > My Outlook Expres is getting bogged down by the 50,000 or so emails I have > on Ruby and Rails ml's. > I find searching these lists a valuable source of information. > I tried to search the archives directly, and my impression is the search > engine was slow and unreliable. > This is a major win for Redmond: Outlook Express scales! Searching is art and science. The basic problems are polysemy/synonymy, which are loosely related to precision/recall ( i actually believe reading the lucene book will help you formulate better searches, you see both sides of the coin).. Basically you need to define a subset of c.l.ruby to search, and think of all the synonyms you can. A hash is a dict/mapping/associative array. There are data structures named lists, arrays, containers, queues, sets, stacks, bags, enumerations, ring buffers, deques, linked lists, heaps etc. etc.