From: Shawn <shawn@...>
Date: 2002-01-18T06:33:20+09:00
Subject: Re: this ruby-parser

    Are there any links or help on how to use the DirectX libraries from
Ruby ? Is it a matter of using the COM interfaces or would I need to use
SWIG to somehow wrap the libraries ? Any help is appreciated.

Thanks

----- Original Message -----
From: "Mathieu Bouchard" <matju@sympatico.ca>
To: "ruby-talk ML" <ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org>; "markus liedl"
<markus.lado@gmx.de>
Cc: "ruby-talk ML" <ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org>; <feldt@ce.chalmers.se>;
<ptkwt@shell1.aracnet.com>; <avi@beta4.com>; <tobiasreif@pinkjuice.com>
Sent: Thursday, January 17, 2002 2:23 PM
Subject: Re: this ruby-parser


>
> On Wed, 16 Jan 2002, markus liedl wrote:
> > > On Sun, 13 Jan 2002, Mathieu Bouchard wrote:
> > Do you want to be the new ruby-parser maintainer?
>
> Oh boy. I actually waited half a year for someone else to do the work
> because I didn't want to mess with parsers. I guess I can do some
> maintenance on it (getting cvs commit perms)...
>
> > I'm currently spending each free minute on a Ruby VM, and I will keep
doing
> > so, so that I can relase something (yet again pre-alpha) in a few weeks.
>
> Can you give me more information on that Ruby VM ? is it Robert's project
> or your own project ? What are its main design principles ? (didn't we
> talk about this particular project in the past?)
>
> > You said that RubySchema should be the 'meaning-conveying parts'. `$_'
and
> > `$some_global_var' have different meaning, especially in a multithreaded
> > environment. I'd prefer VarSpecial, or SVar.
>
> Global vars are very much *special* vars; they're the only real variables
> that can be traced (Kernel.#trace_var). I guess the $ can be considered as
> a slashed S where S stands for special. I want you to note that although
> many $-vars with non-text names have special scoping, many others don't,
> and in addition some $-vars with text names have special scoping
> (e.g. $SAFE). I'm not too sure I want to separate those cases in the
> parser. Maybe it would become like that one day, but for now I'd prefer to
> keep them together.
>
> BTW is it normal that "alias" on global vars appears exactly the same as
> assignment, except with the more special vars?
>
> $foo=42
> $bar=210
> alias $foo $bar
> $foo #==> 210
> $foo = :hello
> $bar #==> 210
>
> alias $foo $_
> $foo #==> nil
> $_ = 42
> $foo #==> 42
> $foo = :blah
> $_ #==> :blah
>
> > Removing Statment,Expr,Arg,Literal
> > Would be absolutely no problem for me.
>
> thanks for your opinion.
>
> > `%c{}' `%u{}'
>
> > I dislike the syntax; (even `%w'; it's handy, but not nice;) looks too
> > much like Perl.
>
> "Looks too much like Perl" is a real bad excuse and I don't want to hear
> it.
>
> > Couldn't one borrow the syntax from Lisp Macros?
>
> You really don't want to do that. Even though Lisp list-interpolation does
> it more nicely than my Perl-looking constructs, they rely on the fact that
> Lisp doesn't have many special characters; Ruby is full of special
> characters. You know what the Lisp syntax is for that? Backtick for a
> semi-quote (that's %c{}), comma for an interpolation (that's %u{}).
>
> Comma! is there any other Ruby char less overloadable than the comma?
>
> > Using % to mean 'quote' is ok, but then the single character... w does
not
> > really imply word.
>
> Please explain.
>
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