[#406419] Recursion with Hash — Love U Ruby <lists@...>

h = {a: {b: {c: 23}}}

14 messages 2013/04/01

[#406465] Exclusively for Rubyists, a community on Facebook — "senthil k." <lists@...>

I was surprised to know that there is no community for Ruby Programming

12 messages 2013/04/03
[#406467] Re: Exclusively for Rubyists, a community on Facebook — Marc Heiler <lists@...> 2013/04/04

Thing is, some people do not use Facebook and never will.

[#406468] Re: Exclusively for Rubyists, a community on Facebook — Aghori Shaivite <aghorishaivite@...> 2013/04/04

Yeah... but some people don't use email, or the internet, or computers. So

[#406528] Role of bundler in creating and installing a gem — Jon Cairns <lists@...>

Hi fellow rubyists,

11 messages 2013/04/05

[#406555] How do you know what the main file in Ruby Projects is? — peteV <pete0verse@...>

Hi Ruby people,

18 messages 2013/04/05
[#406558] Re: How do you know what the main file in Ruby Projects is? — "Carlo E. Prelz" <fluido@...> 2013/04/05

Subject: How do you know what the main file in Ruby Projects is?

[#406560] Re: How do you know what the main file in Ruby Projects is? — Hans Mackowiak <lists@...> 2013/04/05

Carlo E. Prelz wrote in post #1104616:

[#406562] Re: How do you know what the main file in Ruby Projects is? — "D. Deryl Downey" <me@...> 2013/04/05

Actually its not wrong. What it does is explicitly state which ruby

[#406563] Re: How do you know what the main file in Ruby Projects is? — Matt Lawrence <matt@...> 2013/04/05

On Sat, 6 Apr 2013, D. Deryl Downey wrote:

[#406564] Re: How do you know what the main file in Ruby Projects is? — Hans Mackowiak <lists@...> 2013/04/05

Matt Lawrence wrote in post #1104625:

[#406566] Re: How do you know what the main file in Ruby Projects is? — Matt Lawrence <matt@...> 2013/04/05

On Sat, 6 Apr 2013, Hans Mackowiak wrote:

[#406570] Re: How do you know what the main file in Ruby Projects is? — Matthew Mongeau <halogenandtoast@...> 2013/04/05

I'm interested in the issue with using env, but I find you explanation a but hard to follow. What are some situations that lead to the problems you are describing. I'm currently using env in some gems and if there is a strong argument against it, I don't mind switching it.

[#406600] Mapping string data ptr to buffer in ffi — se gm <lists@...>

I'm trying to implement some "shared memory" in Ruby, but I'm not sure

20 messages 2013/04/08

[#406683] confusion with Struct class — Love U Ruby <lists@...>

I went to there - http://www.ruby-doc.org/core-2.0/Struct.html but the

29 messages 2013/04/11
[#406694] Re: confusion with Struct class — Love U Ruby <lists@...> 2013/04/11

Why does every time the has value getting changed,while the instance

[#406762] Why does #content method in nokogiri not printing the full text? — Love U Ruby <lists@...>

Here is the documentation: http://www.rubydoc.info/gems/nokogiri/frames

19 messages 2013/04/14
[#406764] Re: Why does #content method in nokogiri not printing the full text? — tamouse mailing lists <tamouse.lists@...> 2013/04/14

On Sun, Apr 14, 2013 at 11:19 AM, Love U Ruby <lists@ruby-forum.com> wrote:

[#406874] Input: sentence Modify: words Output: modified sentence — Philip Parker <lists@...>

I am new to Ruby. This is a programming interview question to use any

11 messages 2013/04/19

[#406912] Tap method : good or bad practice ? — Sébastien Durand <lists@...>

Hi all !

18 messages 2013/04/21

[#406936] BEGINNER -CLASS QUERY — shaik farooq <lists@...>

HEY as we know that the object conatins the instance variables that are

22 messages 2013/04/22

[#406966] copying files syntax with FileUtils.rb (grr.) — Thomas Luedeke <lists@...>

In my Ruby scripting, there is probably no greater and chronic source of

10 messages 2013/04/23

[#406969] what is the $- magic global? — Matthew Kerwin <lists@...>

I've been searching for the past hour or so, including manually stepping

13 messages 2013/04/24

[#407059] New Rexx like data structure — Peter Hickman <peterhickman386@...>

This is just something that I have been playing with for some time but I

11 messages 2013/04/29

[#407070] writing lines to a file — peteV <pete0verse@...>

I have a text file with on every line a magic card number and such info

13 messages 2013/04/29

Re: what is the $- magic global?

From: Matthew Kerwin <lists@...>
Date: 2013-04-24 04:37:35 UTC
List: ruby-talk #406973
tamouse mailing lists wrote in post #1106716:
> On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 9:21 PM, Matthew Kerwin <lists@ruby-forum.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> I've also encountered perl's @-/@+ match offsets, but can't see how
>> they'd be relevant.
>
> Hummm... I'm flummoxed as well. I just went through the newest
> Programming Ruby book (beta 2) and cannot find anything referencing
> $-. It lists these:
>
[snip]
>
> and this:
>
> "a global variable name can be formed using $- followed by a single
> letter or underscore" [p 318 in PDF]
>
> but no bare $- variable....

You know what, I think I realise what it is. I was being mislead by the
implicit definition of globals.

I think I was originally just typing $X-style globals in IRB to see what
happened, and in the process I hit $-, thus defining :'$-' as a symbol
in the global_variables list.  Then whenever I checked global_variables
I was seeing $- as a defined (or at least known) symbol.  Starting a new
ruby instance, I can see that $- isn't defined from the start.

irb(main):001:0> $VERBOSE=true
=> true
irb(main):002:0> global_variables.select{|g| g.to_s == '$-' }
=> []
irb(main):003:0> $-
irb(main):004:0>
(irb):3: warning: global variable `$-' not initialized
=> nil
irb(main):005:0> global_variables.select{|g| g.to_s == '$-' }
=> [:$-]
irb(main):006:0>

Also, having looked a bit closer at parse.y I think I see what's going
on: when the parser encounters a '$' followed by a '-' it reads the next
character from input (trunk:parse.y#L7839), if it's a identifier
character it adds it to the token, otherwise it pushes it back, then it
fixes the token, defines the symbol, and returns tGVAR.  When I was
typing $-<ENTER> into IRB, there was no "next character" so the
`nextc()` call was blocking, then when I hit enter again, IRB fed
something (a newline or a NUL-byte or EOF or something) to the parser so
the blocked parse of the previous line was allowed to complete.

If I'm right, this can only happen in IRB, because any other stream will
either present a newline/NUL or trigger an EOF, causing nextc() to
return.

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