From: gwtmp01@...
Date: 2006-08-06T00:41:13+09:00
Subject: Re: I’m having a hard time learning ruby.


On Aug 3, 2006, at 5:28 PM, Dave Howell wrote:
> Playing the guessing game of "if I were a command to do X, what  
> would I call myself?" is something I still get to do a lot of.  
> "Collect" and "index," (I'd never have guessed 'index' was a search  
> function!) for arrays, and figuring out which of "chomp/chop/slice/ 
> split/strip" methods for strings I might want, were all non-obvious  
> solutions to various problems I had when programming.

As with any language (computer or natural), you won't become  
comfortable or fluent in the language until you have learned the  
vocabulary.  Knowing how to conjugate a regular verb or the syntax of  
a method definition is not enough.

I know this sounds decidedly low-tech but I've found that the best  
way to become familiar with the vocabulary of a class library is to  
read through the documentation several times and then several more  
times.

Gary Wright