From: Christian Neukirchen Date: 2006-04-06T20:29:33+09:00 Subject: Re: [ANN] Ruby Hacking Guide - New chapters (and a bonus) Logan Capaldo writes: > On Apr 5, 2006, at 4:58 AM, Vincent Isambart wrote: > >> Hi everyone, >> >> Here they are, translations of chapter 3, 4 and 6 of the Ruby >> Hacking Guide! >> We know the translation is far from being perfect, and we welcome any >> correction on the text or diagrams of any chapter (even chapter 2). >> Please send them as patches (attached to the mail, not just in the >> body of the message) on the rhg-discussion mailing list >> (http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rhg-discussion). The patches >> should be done against the text files in the SVN repository >> (http://rubyforge.org/scm/?group_id=1387). > > Thanks! I just starting reading and, and found this gem of an > explanation for Qnil: > >> By the way, what is the ‘Q’ of Qnil? ‘R’ I would have understood >> but why ‘Q’? When I asked, the answer was “Because it’s like that >> in Emacs”. I did not have the fun answer I was expecting… > Me either! Same reason ?x is used for character codes, by the way. ;-) -- Christian Neukirchen http://chneukirchen.org