[#3109] Is divmod dangerous? — Dave Thomas <Dave@...>

14 messages 2000/06/06

[#3149] Retrieving the hostname and port in net/http — Roland Jesse <jesse@...>

Hi,

12 messages 2000/06/07

[#3222] Ruby coding standard? — Robert Feldt <feldt@...>

16 messages 2000/06/09

[#3277] Re: BUG or something? — Aleksi Niemel<aleksi.niemela@...>

> |I am new to Ruby and this brings up a question I have had

17 messages 2000/06/12
[#3281] Re: BUG or something? — Dave Thomas <Dave@...> 2000/06/12

Aleksi Niemel<aleksi.niemela@cinnober.com> writes:

[#3296] RE: about documentation — Aleksi Niemel<aleksi.niemela@...>

> I want to contribute to the ruby project in my spare time.

15 messages 2000/06/12

[#3407] Waffling between Python and Ruby — "Warren Postma" <embed@...>

I was looking at the Ruby editor/IDE for windows and was disappointed with

19 messages 2000/06/14

[#3410] Exercice: Translate into Ruby :-) — Jilani Khaldi <jilanik@...>

Hi All,

17 messages 2000/06/14

[#3415] Re: Waffling between Python and Ruby — Andrew Hunt <andy@...>

>Static typing..., hmm,...

11 messages 2000/06/14

[#3453] Re: Static Typing( Was: Waffling between Python and Ruby) — Andrew Hunt <andy@...>

32 messages 2000/06/16

[#3516] Deep copy? — Hugh Sasse Staff Elec Eng <hgs@...>

Given that I cannot overload =, how should I go about ensuring a deep

20 messages 2000/06/19

[#3694] Why it's quiet — hal9000@...

We are all busy learning the new language

26 messages 2000/06/29
[#3703] Re: Why it's quiet — "NAKAMURA, Hiroshi" <nahi@...> 2000/06/30

Hi,

[#3705] Re: Why it's quiet — matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto) 2000/06/30

Hi,

[ruby-talk:03377] Re: chomp!

From: Dave Thomas <Dave@...>
Date: 2000-06-13 17:10:17 UTC
List: ruby-talk #3377
"David Douthitt" <DDouthitt@cuna.com> writes:

> >From your description things finally CLICK for me :-)
> 
> This is the Ruby version:
> 
> chomp;             # remove linefeed from end of $_
> chomp("ow");       # remove "ow" from end of $_
> 
> Perhaps I have been tainted by Perl, this is what I
> was expecting:
> 
> chomp;             # remove linefeed from end of $_
> chomp("ow");       # remove linefeed from end of "ow"
> 
> See?  'Tis my own confusion.  Is this what Perl did
> to me?  :-)

You once, were lost,
..but now, you're found...


In general, remember that in the objecty world of Ruby, it's

   object.method

rather than

   method(object)


Of course Kernel is littered with exceptions, but Kernel is an
anomaly anyway ;-)


Dave

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