[#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:03399] Re: chomp!

From: Dave Thomas <Dave@...>
Date: 2000-06-14 12:47:44 UTC
List: ruby-talk #3399
matz@netlab.co.jp (Yukihiro Matsumoto) writes:

> |Even better would be an implementation (in C) like:
> |
> |    if $_.chomp?
> |       str = $_.dup.chomp!
> |    end
> |
> |where chomp? did the initial setup for the chomp, and returned true if 
> |the string would be modified, and then chomp! could use that work to
> |change the string.
> 
> This requires you have to update your document.  Is this OK for you?

I _think_ the external interface is unchanged by this -- all that
happens is that th dup gets deferred until needed.

> Well, I'll try.  But dup removal for chomp/gsub/sub is kinda hard.

I'm not sure it's worth in in 1.6. Once these performance experiments
are finished I'll post the results, and maybe we could have some fun
trying to tune the interpreter.


Dave

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