From: Logan Capaldo <logancapaldo@...>
Date: 2006-02-09T10:07:55+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby jargon and slang


On Feb 8, 2006, at 7:59 PM, David Vallner wrote:

> Dňa Streda 08 Február 2006 22:53 Mark Volkmann napísal:
>> On 2/8/06, David Vallner <david@vallner.net> wrote:
>>> Dňa Streda 08 Február 2006 05:18 Mark Szpakowski napísal:
>>>> Can someone point me to the page in the Pickaxe book where #- 
>>>> notation
>>>> is defined? I can't find it through the index.
>>>
>>> That notation is defined in Pickaxe? Now this I want to see.
>>
>> See the "Notation Conventions" section in the Preface. In my copy of
>> Pickaxe 2 it's on page xxix.
>>
>> --
>> R. Mark Volkmann
>> Partner, Object Computing, Inc.
>
> See? Found it :P
>
> I was a bit confused by you using the word "defined", I'd probably say
> "described", since Pickaxe isn't the reference document for  
> conventions like
> this. Then again, it just might be, I can't recall how the notation  
> (or its
> use in Ruby) originated and whether it was somehow canonized.
>
> David Vallner
>

Does ri count as canonical? It comes with ruby correct? And it uses  
the '#' notation.