[#33161] Call/CC and Ruby iterators. — olczyk@... (Thaddeus L Olczyk)

Reading about call/cc in Scheme I get the impression that it is very

11 messages 2002/02/05

[#33242] favicon.ico — Dave Thomas <Dave@...>

19 messages 2002/02/06
[#33256] Re: favicon.ico — Leon Torres <leon@...> 2002/02/06

[#33435] Reg: tiny contest: who's faster? (add_a_gram) — grady@... (Steven Grady)

> My current solution works correctly with various inputs.

17 messages 2002/02/08

[#33500] Ruby Embedded Documentation — William Djaja Tjokroaminata <billtj@...>

Hi,

24 messages 2002/02/10
[#33502] Re: Ruby Embedded Documentation — "Lyle Johnson" <ljohnson@...> 2002/02/10

> Now, I am using Ruby on Linux, and I have downloaded Ruby version

[#33615] Name resolution in Ruby — stern@... (Alan Stern)

I've been struggling to understand how name resolution is supposed to

16 messages 2002/02/11

[#33617] choice of HTML templating system — Paul Brannan <paul@...>

I am not a web developer, nor do I pretend to be one.

23 messages 2002/02/11

[#33619] make first letter lowercase — sebi@... (sebi)

hello,

20 messages 2002/02/11
[#33620] Re: [newbie] make first letter lowercase — Tobias Reif <tobiasreif@...> 2002/02/11

sebi wrote:

[#33624] Re: [newbie] make first letter lowercase — "Jeff 'japhy' Pinyan" <jeffp@...> 2002/02/11

On Feb 11, Tobias Reif said:

[#33632] Re: [newbie] make first letter lowercase — Mathieu Bouchard <matju@...> 2002/02/12

[#33731] simple XML parsing (greedy / non-greedy — Ron Jeffries <ronjeffries@...>

Suppose I had this text

14 messages 2002/02/13

[#33743] qualms about respond_to? idiom — David Alan Black <dblack@...>

Hi --

28 messages 2002/02/13
[#33751] Re: qualms about respond_to? idiom — Dave Thomas <Dave@...> 2002/02/13

David Alan Black <dblack@candle.superlink.net> writes:

[#33754] Re: qualms about respond_to? idiom — David Alan Black <dblack@...> 2002/02/13

Hi --

[#33848] "Powered by Ruby" banner — Yuri Leikind <YuriLeikind@...>

Hello Ruby folks,

78 messages 2002/02/14
[#33909] Re: "Powered by Ruby" banner — Leon Torres <leon@...> 2002/02/14

On Thu, 14 Feb 2002, Yuri Leikind wrote:

[#33916] RE: "Powered by Ruby" banner — "Jack Dempsey" <dempsejn@...> 2002/02/15

A modest submission:

[#33929] Re: "Powered by Ruby" banner — yet another bill smith <bigbill.smith@...> 2002/02/15

Kent Dahl wrote:

[#33932] OT Netscape 4.x? was Re: "Powered by Ruby" banner — Chris Gehlker <gehlker@...> 2002/02/15

On 2/15/02 5:54 AM, "yet another bill smith" <bigbill.smith@verizon.net>

[#33933] RE: OT Netscape 4.x? was Re: "Powered by Ruby" banner — "Jack Dempsey" <dempsejn@...> 2002/02/15

i just don't understand why it didn't show up! dhtml/javascript, ok, but a

[#33937] Re: OT Netscape 4.x? was Re: "Powered by Ruby" banner — Chris Gehlker <gehlker@...> 2002/02/15

On 2/15/02 7:16 AM, "Jack Dempsey" <dempsejn@georgetown.edu> wrote:

[#33989] Re: OT OmniWeb [was: Netscape 4.x?] — Sean Russell <ser@...> 2002/02/16

Chris Gehlker wrote:

[#33991] Re: OT OmniWeb [was: Netscape 4.x?] — Rob Partington <rjp@...> 2002/02/16

In message <3c6e5e01_1@spamkiller.newsgroups.com>,

[#33993] Re: OT OmniWeb [was: Netscape 4.x?] — Thomas Hurst <tom.hurst@...> 2002/02/16

* Rob Partington (rjp@browser.org) wrote:

[#33925] Re: "Powered by Ruby" banner — Martin Maciaszek <mmaciaszek@...> 2002/02/15

In article <3C6CFCCA.5AD5CA67@scnsoft.com>, Yuri Leikind wrote:

[#33956] Re: "Powered by Ruby" banner — Leon Torres <leon@...> 2002/02/15

On Fri, 15 Feb 2002, Martin Maciaszek wrote:

[#33851] Ruby and .NET — Patrik Sundberg <ps@...>

I have been reading a bit about .NET for the last couple of days and must say

53 messages 2002/02/14

[#34024] Compiled companion language for Ruby? — Erik Terpstra <erik@...>

Hmmm, seems that my previous post was in a different thread, I'll try

12 messages 2002/02/16

[#34036] The GUI Returns — "Horacio Lopez" <vruz@...>

Hello all,

33 messages 2002/02/17

[#34162] Epic4/Ruby — Thomas Hurst <tom.hurst@...>

Rejoice, for you no longer have to put up with that evil excuse for a

34 messages 2002/02/18

[#34185] Operator overloading and multiple arguments — ptkwt@...1.aracnet.com (Phil Tomson)

I'm trying to overload the '<=' operator in a class in order to use it for

10 messages 2002/02/18

[#34217] Ruby for web development — beripome@... (Billy)

Hi all,

21 messages 2002/02/19

[#34350] FAQ for comp.lang.ruby — "Hal E. Fulton" <hal9000@...>

RUBY NEWSGROUP FAQ -- Welcome to comp.lang.ruby! (Revised 2001-2-18)

15 messages 2002/02/20

[#34375] Setting the Ruby continued — <jostein.berntsen@...>

Hi,

24 messages 2002/02/20
[#34384] Re: Setting the Ruby continued — Paulo Schreiner <paulo@...> 2002/02/20

Also VERY important:

[#34467] recursive require — Ron Jeffries <ronjeffries@...>

I'm having a really odd thing happen with two files that mutually

18 messages 2002/02/21

[#34503] special characters — Tobias Reif <tobiasreif@...>

Hi all,

13 messages 2002/02/22

[#34517] Windows Installer Ruby 166-0 available — Andrew Hunt <andy@...>

16 messages 2002/02/22

[#34597] rdoc/xml questions — Dave Thomas <Dave@...>

24 messages 2002/02/23

[#34631] Object/Memory Management — "Sean O'Dell" <sean@...>

I'm new to Ruby and the community here (I've been learning Ruby for a grand

44 messages 2002/02/23

[#34682] duplicate method name — Ron Jeffries <ronjeffries@...>

I just found a case in a test file where i had two tests of the same

16 messages 2002/02/24
[#34687] Re: duplicate method name — s@... (Stefan Schmiedl) 2002/02/24

Hi Ron.

[#34791] Style Question — Ron Jeffries <ronjeffries@...>

So I'm building this set theory library. The "only" object is supposed

13 messages 2002/02/25

[#34912] RCR?: parallel to until: as_soon_as — Tobias Reif <tobiasreif@...>

Hi,

18 messages 2002/02/26

[#34972] OT A Question on work styles — Chris Gehlker <gehlker@...>

As a Mac baby I just had to step through ruby in GDB *from the command line*

20 messages 2002/02/28

[#35015] Time Comparison — "Sean O'Dell" <sean@...>

I am using the time object to compare times between two files and I'm

21 messages 2002/02/28

Re: smallest non-zero number (and other limits)

From: Bil Kleb <W.L.Kleb@...>
Date: 2002-02-01 20:15:04 UTC
List: ruby-talk #32984
Bil Kleb wrote:
> 
> These could be detected and the Float class constants
> depreciated (simply not set?) accordingly.

Done; attached is the proposed patch.

Whad'da think?

Note: this was only checked by "Gurus scan the code" and an
irb "Guru" check of all the numbers.  To be complete, i.e.,
maintainable, it would require adding appropriate Rubicon tests.

--
Bil K (and Bill W)
NASA Langley Research Center
Hampton, Virginia, USA

% cvs diff -c
Index: configure.in
===================================================================
RCS file: /src/ruby/configure.in,v
retrieving revision 1.108
diff -c -r1.108 configure.in
*** configure.in        2002/01/29 09:15:59     1.108
--- configure.in        2002/02/01 17:04:42
***************
*** 273,279 ****
  AC_HEADER_DIRENT
  AC_HEADER_STDC
  AC_HEADER_SYS_WAIT
! AC_CHECK_HEADERS(stdlib.h string.h unistd.h limits.h sys/file.h sys/ioctl.h\
                 fcntl.h sys/fcntl.h sys/select.h sys/time.h sys/times.h sys/param.h\
                 syscall.h pwd.h a.out.h utime.h memory.h direct.h sys/resource.h \
                 sys/mkdev.h)
--- 273,279 ----
  AC_HEADER_DIRENT
  AC_HEADER_STDC
  AC_HEADER_SYS_WAIT
! AC_CHECK_HEADERS(stdlib.h string.h unistd.h limits.h float.h sys/file.h sys/ioctl.h\
                 fcntl.h sys/fcntl.h sys/select.h sys/time.h sys/times.h sys/param.h\
                 syscall.h pwd.h a.out.h utime.h memory.h direct.h sys/resource.h \
                 sys/mkdev.h)
Index: numeric.c
===================================================================
RCS file: /src/ruby/numeric.c,v
retrieving revision 1.38
diff -c -r1.38 numeric.c
*** numeric.c   2002/01/11 09:18:50     1.38
--- numeric.c   2002/02/01 17:04:43
***************
*** 13,18 ****
--- 13,21 ----
  #include "ruby.h"
  #include <math.h>
  #include <stdio.h>
+ #ifdef HAVE_FLOAT_H
+ #include <float.h>
+ #endif
  #if defined(__FreeBSD__) && __FreeBSD__ < 4
  #include <floatingpoint.h>
  #endif
***************
*** 1669,1674 ****
--- 1672,1718 ----

      rb_define_singleton_method(rb_cFloat, "induced_from", rb_flo_induced_from, 1);
      rb_include_module(rb_cFloat, rb_mPrecision);
+
+ #ifdef HAVE_FLOAT_H
+     rb_define_const(rb_cFloat, "FLT_ROUNDS", INT2FIX(FLT_ROUNDS));
+     rb_define_const(rb_cFloat, "FLT_RADIX", INT2FIX(FLT_RADIX));
+
+     rb_define_const(rb_cFloat, "FLT_MANT_DIG", INT2FIX(FLT_MANT_DIG));
+     rb_define_const(rb_cFloat, "DBL_MANT_DIG", INT2FIX(DBL_MANT_DIG));
+     rb_define_const(rb_cFloat, "LDBL_MANT_DIG", INT2FIX(LDBL_MANT_DIG));
+
+     rb_define_const(rb_cFloat, "FLT_DIG", INT2FIX(FLT_DIG));
+     rb_define_const(rb_cFloat, "DBL_DIG", INT2FIX(DBL_DIG));
+     rb_define_const(rb_cFloat, "LDBL_DIG", INT2FIX(LDBL_DIG));
+
+     rb_define_const(rb_cFloat, "FLT_MIN_EXP", INT2FIX(FLT_MIN_EXP));
+     rb_define_const(rb_cFloat, "DBL_MIN_EXP", INT2FIX(DBL_MIN_EXP));
+     rb_define_const(rb_cFloat, "LDBL_MIN_EXP", INT2FIX(LDBL_MIN_EXP));
+
+     rb_define_const(rb_cFloat, "FLT_MAX_EXP", INT2FIX(FLT_MAX_EXP));
+     rb_define_const(rb_cFloat, "DBL_MAX_EXP", INT2FIX(DBL_MAX_EXP));
+     rb_define_const(rb_cFloat, "LDBL_MAX_EXP", INT2FIX(LDBL_MAX_EXP));
+
+     rb_define_const(rb_cFloat, "FLT_MIN_10_EXP", INT2FIX(FLT_MIN_10_EXP));
+     rb_define_const(rb_cFloat, "DBL_MIN_10_EXP", INT2FIX(DBL_MIN_10_EXP));
+     rb_define_const(rb_cFloat, "LDBL_MIN_10_EXP", INT2FIX(LDBL_MIN_10_EXP));
+
+     rb_define_const(rb_cFloat, "FLT_MAX_10_EXP", INT2FIX(FLT_MAX_10_EXP));
+     rb_define_const(rb_cFloat, "DBL_MAX_10_EXP", INT2FIX(DBL_MAX_10_EXP));
+     rb_define_const(rb_cFloat, "LDBL_MAX_10_EXP", INT2FIX(LDBL_MAX_10_EXP));
+
+     rb_define_const(rb_cFloat, "FLT_MIN", rb_float_new(FLT_MIN));
+     rb_define_const(rb_cFloat, "DBL_MIN", rb_float_new(DBL_MIN));
+     rb_define_const(rb_cFloat, "LDBL_MIN", rb_float_new(LDBL_MIN));
+
+     rb_define_const(rb_cFloat, "FLT_MAX", rb_float_new(FLT_MAX));
+     rb_define_const(rb_cFloat, "DBL_MAX", rb_float_new(DBL_MAX));
+     rb_define_const(rb_cFloat, "LDBL_MAX", rb_float_new(LDBL_MAX));
+
+     rb_define_const(rb_cFloat, "FLT_EPSILON", rb_float_new(FLT_EPSILON));
+     rb_define_const(rb_cFloat, "DBL_EPSILON", rb_float_new(DBL_EPSILON));
+     rb_define_const(rb_cFloat, "LDBL_EPSILON", rb_float_new(LDBL_EPSILON));
+ #endif

      rb_define_method(rb_cFloat, "to_s", flo_to_s, 0);
      rb_define_method(rb_cFloat, "coerce", flo_coerce, 1);

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