[#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:03557] Re: A small quiz

From: "Warren Postma" <embed@...>
Date: 2000-06-20 13:05:32 UTC
List: ruby-talk #3557
"Dave Thomas" <Dave@thomases.com> wrote in message
news:m2aeggoqi4.fsf@zip.local.thomases.com...
>
>
> Andy and I were surprised by a Ruby feature. If you'd like, answer the
> following three questions without executing the code, then try it in
> Ruby and see if you were right.
>
>    a = "hi"
>    p a[0,1]       #=> "h"
>    p a[1,1]       #=>  ?
>    p a[2,1]       #=>  ?
>    p a[3,1]       #=>  ?
>
> Anyone else surprised?

Uh, it's the difference between p a[0] and p a[0,1] that surprises me.
Particularly, the use of a[0] to refer to an ordinal, and

a[0,1] to refer to a literal, if I might say, that is what is extremely
weird to me.

Warren



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