From: Harry Ohlsen <harryo@...>
Date: 2001-12-13T20:05:46+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:28404] Re: Documentation of the different Exception types

In article <1008236719.187872.5268.nullmailer@ev.netlab.jp>, "Yukihiro
Matsumoto" <matz@ruby-lang.org> wrote:


> I have to tell you the story.  I wrote the pocket reference in Japanese.
>  That was the thickest pocket reference book that O'Reilly (Japan) ever
> had.  So in the process of English translation of the book, O'Reilly US
> office decided to make it a full sized book, and named it "Ruby in a
> Nutshell".  So they are a same book.

I see!  Well, I guess the good thing about that is that buying one means
there's no need to spend more money on the other!