[#403837] Why none of the block giving the expected output with the "enumerator"? — Arup Rakshit <lists@...>

Why none of the block giving the expected output with the "enumerator"?

9 messages 2013/02/02

[#403870] Confusion with Enum#with_object block argument construct — Arup Rakshit <lists@...>

C:\>irb

9 messages 2013/02/03

[#403920] Character classes use in Ruby — Love U Ruby <lists@...>

Can anyone help me by giving an explanatory example of each of the

13 messages 2013/02/04

[#403935] How to stop page loading using selenium-web driver? — Love U Ruby <lists@...>

How to stop page loading using selenium-web driver?

11 messages 2013/02/04

[#403972] Ruby could recognize the values when putting into a webpage text filed. — Love U Ruby <lists@...>

SGksCgpJIGhhdmUgc29tZSB2YWx1ZXMgaW4gbXkgRXhjZWwgYXMgYmVsb3c6

9 messages 2013/02/05

[#403986] old syntax? what's going on here — tamouse mailing lists <tamouse.lists@...>

I have this in a _spec.rb file: (a gem I inherited at work)

11 messages 2013/02/05

[#404005] Implementing DRY with a function call — Rob Marshall <lists@...>

Hi,

12 messages 2013/02/05

[#404006] using an instance variable inside a method — FirstName Surname <lists@...>

Hello.

19 messages 2013/02/05

[#404021] Not able get the label text incurred with <input> element — Love U Ruby <lists@...>

I do have a below `HTML`:

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[#404025] Symbol.defined? — Student Jr <lists@...>

Symbol deserialization from external sources is now known to be

15 messages 2013/02/06

[#404058] Ruby 1.9.3-p362 on Mac OSX — Peter Bailey <lists@...>

Hi,

13 messages 2013/02/06

[#404082] Problem building Ruby 1.9.3 patchlevel 385 under AIX 7.1 — Ruby Student <ruby.student@...>

Hello World!

10 messages 2013/02/06

[#404101] Issues from an extreme beginner — Bruce Palmer <lists@...>

Hey guys, great to be part of such a great community! I look forward to

19 messages 2013/02/07
[#404104] Re: Issues from an extreme beginner — Bruce Palmer <lists@...> 2013/02/07

Ahh, thank you Matthew! That was just the push I needed!

[#404208] elegant way to determine if something is defined — tamouse mailing lists <tamouse.lists@...>

Something like:

15 messages 2013/02/10

[#404218] Ruby Equivalent to VB's "With"? — Joel Pearson <lists@...>

I've looked around but I couldn't find anything helpful on this,

11 messages 2013/02/10

[#404235] The "ruby way" to do desktop applications? — "guirec c." <lists@...>

Hello,

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[#404238] Best books for "advanced" programmers — "guirec c." <lists@...>

Hello,

18 messages 2013/02/11

[#404245] Issue with Excel column values read. — Love U Ruby <lists@...>

Hi,

22 messages 2013/02/11

[#404344] Ruby command line options s and S — Love U Ruby <lists@...>

Can anyone help me to understand the difference between s and S with

15 messages 2013/02/13

[#404386] Re: Ruby command line options s and S — "D. Deryl Downey" <me@...>

Dude!

20 messages 2013/02/14

[#404387] Ruby Multithreaded producer-consumer problem — Abhijit Sarkar <lists@...>

Hi,

26 messages 2013/02/14
[#404896] Re: Ruby Multithreaded producer-consumer problem — Abhijit Sarkar <lists@...> 2013/02/24

Bump!

[#404456] skip iteration in each loop — Saurav Chakraborty <lists@...>

I want to skip iteration for few values depending on dynamic condition.

11 messages 2013/02/15

[#404491] so, what's the proper way to replace funcionality of GOTO ? — "Stu P. D'naim" <lists@...>

I need to make few scripts for tasks I do often manually, but last time

27 messages 2013/02/15
[#404492] Re: [from BASIC to Ruby] so, what's the proper way to replace funcionality of GOTO ? — Love U Ruby <lists@...> 2013/02/15

Stu P. D'naim wrote in post #1097111:

[#404494] Re: [from BASIC to Ruby] so, what's the proper way to replace funcionality of GOTO ? — Ryan Victory <ryan@...> 2013/02/15

Love U Ruby: I'm really not sure what you meant by that response, but

[#404570] What is Ruby's default constructor? — Love U Ruby <lists@...>

Hi,

12 messages 2013/02/17

[#404632] Re: splat operator and Ruby instance variable assignments — Marc Heiler <lists@...>

Ok, understood what the guy wants ...

17 messages 2013/02/19
[#404640] Re: splat operator and Ruby instance variable assignments — Love U Ruby <lists@...> 2013/02/19

Marc Heiler wrote in post #1097736:

[#404645] Re: splat operator and Ruby instance variable assignments — Ryan Davis <ryand-ruby@...> 2013/02/19

[#404646] Re: splat operator and Ruby instance variable assignments — Love U Ruby <lists@...> 2013/02/19

Ryan Davis wrote in post #1097840:

[#404647] Re: splat operator and Ruby instance variable assignments — Peter Hickman <peterhickman386@...> 2013/02/19

On 19 February 2013 20:35, Love U Ruby <lists@ruby-forum.com> wrote:

[#404648] Re: splat operator and Ruby instance variable assignments — Love U Ruby <lists@...> 2013/02/19

Peter Hickman wrote in post #1097848:

[#404696] THE CLASS/OBJECT CHICKEN-AND-EGG PARADOX — "Xavier R." <lists@...>

Hi,

25 messages 2013/02/20
[#404699] Re: THE CLASS/OBJECT CHICKEN-AND-EGG PARADOX — Matt Mongeau <halogenandtoast@...> 2013/02/20

Maybe you could provide more detail about what you are confused about. To

[#404700] Re: THE CLASS/OBJECT CHICKEN-AND-EGG PARADOX — "Xavier R." <lists@...> 2013/02/20

Matt Mongeau wrote in post #1098058:

[#404705] Re: THE CLASS/OBJECT CHICKEN-AND-EGG PARADOX — Matt Mongeau <halogenandtoast@...> 2013/02/20

It's not really a paradox. Take for example

[#404738] backslash substitution — Mario Ruiz <lists@...>

don't know why... but this is not working

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[#404809] Difference of 2 dates interms of years. — "Xavier R." <lists@...>

how can we get the experience years between two dates(ex:2012-01-11 to

13 messages 2013/02/22

[#404817] Not able to understand the difference between "||=" and "|=". — "Xavier R." <lists@...>

>> a = []

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[#404839] range is not assigning to the splat variable. — Love U Ruby <lists@...>

Why splat variable couldn't take in the below two code the "range" ->

10 messages 2013/02/23

[#404842] Why class returning its own name when "include" statement? — Love U Ruby <lists@...>

I was actually playing around with the class definition return values.

16 messages 2013/02/23
[#404844] Re: Why class returning its own name when "include" statement? — Love U Ruby <lists@...> 2013/02/23

@Stefano Yes you are right. The below code is proved that.

[#404867] how to see the class creation time in Ruby? — Love U Ruby <lists@...>

In Ruby any chance to see the last-modified time of a specific class?

15 messages 2013/02/23

[#404901] Confusion with `nil` value being produced by IRB in case of Array#size manipulation. — Love U Ruby <lists@...>

enum[int] =3D obj =E2=86=92 obj

10 messages 2013/02/24

[#404921] How should I print only the last combination when using Array#combination(n) ? — Love U Ruby <lists@...>

>> a = [1,2,3]

15 messages 2013/02/24

[#405026] Please, help (GCD) greatest common divisor. — Caddy Tonks Lupin <lists@...>

Write a program to read two integers and show their greatest common

17 messages 2013/02/26

[#405059] Does this specific sound library exist? — Dirk Vogel <lists@...>

Hi there,

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[#405067] Mac OS 10.8.2 and openssl — "Dr. Hegewald" <hegewald@...>

Hi everybody,

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[#405079] Why `10` not returned without the `return` from the block ? — Love U Ruby <lists@...>

CODE - I

10 messages 2013/02/27

[#405107] Object track llist for a particular class. — "Xavier R." <lists@...>

Say I have created more than one instances from a particular class as

13 messages 2013/02/27

[#405145] Discussion on Ruby's `alias` — Tukai Patra <lists@...>

>> class Foo

27 messages 2013/02/28

[#405175] telnet - how to loop through commands listed in a file — Bob Ford <lists@...>

Let me first explain what I'm trying to do. I have written a very

18 messages 2013/02/28

Re: [from BASIC to Ruby] so, what's the proper way to replace funcionality of GOTO ?

From: Garthy D <garthy_lmkltybr@...>
Date: 2013-02-16 07:23:00 UTC
List: ruby-talk #404530
Hi all,

On 16/02/13 11:16, Ryan Victory wrote:
> Well, considering the OP's question was "What's the /proper/ way to
> replace functionality of GOTO" (emphasis mine), I'd say that pretty much
> any rubyist would agree that a goto like structure doesn't belong in
> ruby code unless it truly is the most elegant solution (escaping
> multiple nested loops for example). Not that it really matters either
> way, this question has been answered by somebody else and I believe the
> OP is satisfied.
>
> -Ryan

I just wanted to say that I think Ryan is attempting to steer the OP in 
the right direction, which is to prefer modern, sensible structures 
where possible that don't have the numerous drawbacks that GOTO is 
saddled with.

Reducing it to a car analogy, as all things do, ;) consider if someone 
familiar with driving an auto was asking how to make a manual move, and 
if you accelerated with the same pedal. Someone like Ryan steps in and 
very wisely says that you might want to figure out the clutch first, 
since the car isn't going anywhere without changing gears. Someone else 
points out that the clutch won't move the car at all, and that he is 
wrong. Sure, that's technically correct, he would be wrong, but the 
point is that the real problem that should be addressed involves 
understanding the role the clutch also plays.

I also want to add that I *also* had absolutely *no* idea that Ruby had 
anything like GOTO and was similarly thrown (pun intended) by the 
mention of catch/throw. I've not had a need for it yet, myself. It's 
simultaneously disturbing, interesting, and scary to know this exists. ;)

I started out software development around a couple of decades ago with 
BASIC, and then later assembly language, before moving on to Ada, C, and 
C++. Anyone with a similar background can imagine how much unlearning 
*that* required. ;)

Ryan's advice is good, especially for someone in that position. Ryan, 
like me, just didn't know about Ruby catch/throw. It's still good 
advice. I just wanted to make sure at least one person has acknowledged 
this.

Cheers,
Garth

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