From: William James <w_a_x_man@...>
Date: 2006-12-23T06:05:05+09:00
Subject: Re: Merry (slightly early) Christmas! Mr. Neighborly's Humble Little Ruby Book is free!

Siemen Baader wrote:
> Really nice! I'm reading it right now.
>
> I found a small typo on p 26 of the pdf version:
>
> Integers are created by entering the number you wish to use without quotes
> (lest it become a string).
>
> --> (lets it become a string).
>
> :)
>
> merry christmas
> siemen baader

Now wait just a gosh darn minute!  That's not an error.  You're simply
not fluent in English.  He's saying that to avoid making the number
a string, you must not use quotes.

  Examples from the K.J.V.:

Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die.

They shall bear thee up in their hands, lest thou dash thy
foot against a stone.

Also take no heed unto all words that are spoken; lest thou
hear thy servant curse thee:

  A poem by Samuel Taylor Coleridge:

Hear, sweet Spirit, hear the spell,
Lest a blacker charm compel!
So shall the midnight breezes swell
With thy deep long-lingering knell.

And at evening evermore,
In a chapel on the shore,
Shall the chaunter, sad and saintly,
Yellow tapers burning faintly,
Doleful masses chaunt for thee,
  Miserere Domine!

Hush! the cadence dies away
On the quiet moonlight sea:
The boatmen rest their oars and say,
  Miserere Domine!


--
Q.  What's long and round and full of siemen?
A.  A submarine.