From: Logan Capaldo Date: 2006-04-07T13:35:24+09:00 Subject: Re: [ANN] Ruby Hacking Guide - New chapters (and a bonus) On Apr 6, 2006, at 7:29 AM, Christian Neukirchen wrote: > 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. ;-) > Whatever happened to #\x ?? > -- > Christian Neukirchen http:// > chneukirchen.org >