From: Frederick Cheung <frederick.cheung@...>
Date: 2008-07-16T17:23:00+09:00
Subject: Re: check my class


On 16 Jul 2008, at 05:35, misterparker@gmail.com wrote:

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>> It sure looks to me like you can just cut and paste it into  
>> irb.  ;)  It
>> took me literally ten seconds (I had to wait for my terminal to load
>> because my memory is topped) to check this.
>>
>> You'll find that Ruby is very forgiving of this kind of  
>> experimentation.
>> If you can do it, it will let you do it.  If you can't, it will  
>> tell you
>> you can't without trashing your system.
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> I'm on a mac, and I used textedit to write the class, then copied and
> pasted but after ever def and many other lines after that it asked me
> Display all 319 possibilities? (y or n)
> so thats why i was curious if i should be able to or not...would you
> know why it does that?
Because your file probably used tabs (the convention usually to use  
soft tabs instead, 2 spaces per tab).
In an interactive session with irb tab means auto complete so pasting  
a document with tabs in it won't end well.
Don't know if you can set textedit to use spaces instead of tabs.

Fred


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> as for the help on the class thank you! i am coming from php and i
> started looking into ruby yesterday...so i'm still unsure of what is
> the same or different or what is allowed....But thank you.
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