[#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:03385] Re: chomp!

From: Conrad Schneiker <schneik@...>
Date: 2000-06-14 04:59:45 UTC
List: ruby-talk #3385
Hi,

Yukihiro Matsumoto wrote:

> Hi,
>
> In message "[ruby-talk:03370] Re: chomp!"
>     on 00/06/13, Aleksi Niemel<aleksi.niemela@cinnober.com> writes:
>
> |Moreover I'm interested in why Kernel.chomp is profoundly different than
> |String.chomp (the former doesn't return nil in any case). It might cause
> |these two programs to work differently and I, for one, wouldn't expect it.
>
> String.chomp does not return nil neither.  OTOH, String.chomp! may.
>
>                                                     matz.

So is there some grand overall plan, principle, reasoning, or system to all of
these sorts of things? Or is this just one of those occasional unintended
products of language evolution, as it were? Is there some reasonably natural,
more systematic way to reconcile these things more in line with the principle
of least surprise? If so, is there any possibility of this being incorporated
into Ruby 1.6?

--
Conrad Schneiker
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