[#17198] enhancing Ruby error messages for out of the bound constant Fixnum? — Guillaume Cottenceau <gc@...>

Hi,

11 messages 2001/07/03

[#17206] /* */ comments — Dave Thomas <Dave@...>

43 messages 2001/07/04
[#17207] Re: /* */ comments — Stephen White <spwhite@...> 2001/07/04

On Wed, 4 Jul 2001, Dave Thomas wrote:

[#17251] Re: /* */ comments — Sean Chittenden <sean-ruby-talk@...> 2001/07/04

> Over on http://www.rubygarden.org, dv posted a patch to parse.y that

[#17268] Re: /* */ comments — matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto) 2001/07/05

Hi,

[#17212] Ruby 1.6.4 Win32 .exe installer question — A Bull in the China Shop of Life <feoh@...>

Folks;

11 messages 2001/07/04

[#17225] Re: /* */ comments — Arnaud Meuret <ameuret@...4you.com>

|From: Mark Slagell [mailto:ms@iastate.edu]

17 messages 2001/07/04

[#17240] Ruby Mascot/logo — "Kevin Powick" <kpowick@...>

Hi there.

14 messages 2001/07/04

[#17281] Inheritance — "Aleksei Guzev" <aleksei.guzev@...>

15 messages 2001/07/05
[#17282] Re: Inheritance — ts <decoux@...> 2001/07/05

>>>>> "A" == Aleksei Guzev <aleksei.guzev@bigfoot.com> writes:

[#17348] Adding a method to a class at the top-level — Guillaume Cottenceau <gc@...>

Comrades,

14 messages 2001/07/05

[#17482] Aliases for class methods — "HarryO" <harryo@...>

Say I wanted to write my own version of File#open that adds some

23 messages 2001/07/08

[#17511] Ruby on Slashdot — jweirich@...

Ruby is currently mentioned on Slashdot. I posted some references.

29 messages 2001/07/08
[#17512] Re: Ruby on Slashdot — Tobias Reif <tobiasreif@...> 2001/07/08

Interesting...

[#17518] Re: Ruby on Slashdot — matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto) 2001/07/09

Hi,

[#17519] Re: Ruby on Slashdot — "James (ruby-talk)" <ruby@...> 2001/07/09

> |I thought about that too; what about Ruby being a standard?

[#17525] Re: Ruby on Slashdot — matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto) 2001/07/09

Hi,

[#17536] Re: Ruby on Slashdot — David Alan Black <dblack@...> 2001/07/09

Hello --

[#17572] Re: Constants and Variables — "HarryO" <harryo@...>

> If you want objects that don't change, try Object#freeze,

25 messages 2001/07/10

[#17732] Re: Array#sort! returns nil when array empty — hfulton@...

> Array#sort! returns nil if the array is empty, whereas ri

32 messages 2001/07/12
[#17736] Re: Array#sort! returns nil when array empty — Paul Brannan <pbrannan@...> 2001/07/12

On Fri, 13 Jul 2001 hfulton@pop-server.austin.rr.com wrote:

[#17739] Re: Array#sort! returns nil when array empty — ts <decoux@...> 2001/07/12

>>>>> "P" == Paul Brannan <pbrannan@atdesk.com> writes:

[#17746] Re: Array#sort! returns nil when array empty — Paul Brannan <pbrannan@...> 2001/07/12

On Fri, 13 Jul 2001, ts wrote:

[#17747] What is Array#- ? — Jim Freeze <jim@...> 2001/07/12

While following the Array thread, I noticed the minus

[#17752] Re: What is Array#- ? — Dave Thomas <Dave@...> 2001/07/12

Jim Freeze <jim@freeze.org> writes:

[#17753] Re: What is Array#- ? — Jim Freeze <jim@...> 2001/07/12

On Fri, 13 Jul 2001, Dave Thomas wrote:

[#17833] Extending objects — "Aleksei Guzev" <aleksei.guzev@...>

16 messages 2001/07/14
[#17834] Ruby-newbie seeks help with Rubywin starting IRB — "Euan Mee" <lucid@...> 2001/07/14

Once I fire up Rubywin, and then invoke _R_uby _I_rb from the

[#17839] Re: Ruby-newbie seeks help with Rubywin starting IRB — A Bull in the China Shop of Life <feoh@...> 2001/07/14

At 07:05 PM 7/14/01 +0900, Euan Mee spewed forth:

[#17859] Re: Creating methods on the fly — "HarryO" <harryo@...>

I

18 messages 2001/07/15

[#17925] Movement in scripting language communities to integrate XML-RPC — gsemones@... (Guerry Semones)

Greetings,

20 messages 2001/07/16
[#17934] Re: Movement in scripting language communities to integrate XML-RPC — Tobias Reif <tobiasreif@...> 2001/07/16

"out of the box" by including

[#18018] Broadcasting data — "HarryO" <harryo@...>

Does someone have an example of broadcasting data around a network using

12 messages 2001/07/18

[#18023] [ANN] libxslt Rubified! — Wai-Sun Chia <waisun.chia@...>

Hello,

16 messages 2001/07/18
[#18024] Re: [ANN] libxslt Rubified! — TAKAHASHI Masayoshi <maki@...> 2001/07/18

Wai-Sun Chia <waisun.chia@compaq.com> wrote:

[#18100] Looking for Ruby programming exercises — Wayne Vucenic <wvucenic@...> 2001/07/19

I've been learning Ruby, mostly with the Pickaxe book, and it's going

[#18188] Newbie. Sinking fast. Please help. — Matt <matt@...>

I bought Programming Ruby a number of months back and finally have an opportunity to try out Ruby. However, I can't get it to build. Actually, that's not quite accurate. It builds fine. It won't pass 'make test'.

12 messages 2001/07/20

[#18193] Re: 99 bottles of beer — "Dat Nguyen" <thucdat@...>

18 messages 2001/07/20
[#18204] Re: 99 bottles of beer — Glen Starchman <glen@...> 2001/07/20

99.downto(0){|x|w=" on the wall";u="#{x!=0?eval(x.to_s):'no more'}

[#18306] Ruby as opposed to Python? — "Mark Nenadov" <mnenadov@...>

Hello. I have toyed with the idea of trying Ruby out for some time now.

118 messages 2001/07/22
[#18759] Re: Ruby as opposed to Python? — Paul Prescod <paulp@...> 2001/07/29

Yukihiro Matsumoto wrote:

[#18774] Re: Ruby as opposed to Python? — "Florian G. Pflug" <fgp@...> 2001/07/30

On Mon, Jul 30, 2001 at 05:58:22AM +0900, Paul Prescod wrote:

[#18393] Trouble Using FXRuby on cygwin/Windows NT — rgilbert1@... (Robbie Gilbert)

Hi,

10 messages 2001/07/23

[#18566] Which database should I use? — Urban Hafner <the-master-of-bass@...>

Hello everybody,

17 messages 2001/07/26
[#18575] Re: Which database should I use? — Urban Hafner <the-master-of-bass@...> 2001/07/26

[#18582] Re: Which database should I use? — Michael Neumann <neumann@...> 2001/07/26

Urban Hafner wrote:

[ruby-talk:18482] Re: OO question

From: "David Simmons" <pulsar@...>
Date: 2001-07-24 23:33:25 UTC
List: ruby-talk #18482
"Richard MacDonald" <macdonaldrj@att.net> wrote in message
news:u9n77.17843$gj1.1809070@bgtnsc05-news.ops.worldnet.att.net...
> "David Simmons" <pulsar@qks.com> wrote in message
> news:5Hg77.247679$%i7.138439534@news1.rdc1.sfba.home.com...
> > "Tom Malone" <tom@tom-malone.com> wrote in message
> > news:eD%67.13347$4v6.1114615@e420r-atl3.usenetserver.com...
> > > Someone please tell me if this is an inappropriate question for this
> > list -
> > > I don't want to irritate or offend anyone here.
> > > What is the benefit of a true object-oriented language (Ruby), in
which
> > > everything is an object, as opposed to, say (arbitrarily) a language
> that
> > is
> > > not strictly object-oriented (yet is still popular) like Java?
> > >
> > > Forgive the newbie his ignorance  =)
> >
> > You might want to look over the following paper:
> >
> >     What is an Object-Oriented Programming Language?
> >     http://www.research.att.com/~kfisher/files/whatis.ps
> >
> >     Abstract:
> >     http://www.research.att.com/~kfisher/abstracts.html/#Whatis
> >
> > From:
> >     http://www.research.att.com/~kfisher/publications.html
> >
> And also think about the need to add new methods to existing
> objects. With something like Ruby, I can add, say, the "gamma"
> function to Integers and Reals and use it everywhere. With
> something like Java, (1) there is nothing I can do with the primitives,
> (2) nothing I can do with their pseudo-object, crappy-typing
> workarounds called Integer and Real that can do nothing but sit there
> and hold onto a primitive, and (3) nothing I can do
> with that stupid Math class, so I have to write my own
> separate gamma function in a separate class and have all the
> clients of gamma know how to invoke this separate class. Now,
> only (1) is a direct result of the issue (the others are because they
> finalized the classes), but that is enough.
>
> I learned on an "OO" language that prevented me from modifying
> these primitives. It took a long time before I realized I was
> writing awful code and the reason was these primitives (among
> other things :-) I got into Smalltalk and it was clear sailing. Now I'm
> into Java, hence my nasty comments. Basically, if "everything is an
> object", then "everything is potentially customizable". Finalization
> screws this up, but that is another thread.
> For a more "reasoned" argument, see
>
http://domino.watson.ibm.com/library/cyberdig.nsf/a3807c5b4823c53f8525656100
> 6324be/31f5d8dad5983328852565fa004dc78d?OpenDocument

And to add a bit more to these sage comments...

We would like to have a mechanism to ensure that the dynamic or static
"changes" we make to base/core/external classes (such as <Integer> and
<Real>) are scoped (modularized) to our projects. That way, if we are mixed
into the soup of a real running system, our changes to these classes will
not interfere with the expectations or changes made by other code in the
soup which is sharing those classes with us.

I.e., we want to have a mechanism to encapsulate our changes to only be
visible to us within our projects where we manage our projects in a modular
fashion.

In SmallScript this is what the module system and scoped-messages
(selector-namespaces) enable us to do. Closely related to this subject is
the whole family of ideas behind such things as aspect-oriented programming,
etc.

--
-- Dave S. [ http://www.smallscript.net ]
   Smalltalk for the AOS Platform and The Microsoft.NET Framework

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