From: Joel VanderWerf <vjoel@...>
Date: 2002-04-04T06:57:13+09:00
Subject: Re: Really new-new-newbie question :)

Philip Mateescu wrote:

> 1. How can I make a long statement span multiple lines ? With other
> languages a statement mostly ends with a terminator, but Ruby has only new
> line (VB has _)

use_a_backslash = 1 \
                  + 2

no_backslash_needed = 1 +
                      2

> 2. Is there an equivalent to the perldoc utility ? Or something I can use to
> get quick info about classes, methods, etc ? (I could be wrong, but the
> source only seems to produce ruby.exe - have I missed something ?)

There's ri:

http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/raa-list.rhtml?name=ri