[#4567] Re: What's the biggest Ruby development? — Aleksi Niemel<aleksi.niemela@...>

Dave said:

18 messages 2000/08/23
[#4568] Q's on Marshal — Robert Feldt <feldt@...> 2000/08/23

[#4580] RubyUnit testcase run for different init params? — Robert Feldt <feldt@...> 2000/08/25

[#4584] Re: RubyUnit testcase run for different init params? — Dave Thomas <Dave@...> 2000/08/25

Robert Feldt <feldt@ce.chalmers.se> writes:

[#4623] Re: RubyUnit testcase run for different init params? — Robert Feldt <feldt@...> 2000/08/28

On Sat, 26 Aug 2000, Dave Thomas wrote:

[#4652] Andy and Dave's European Tour 2000 — Dave Thomas <Dave@...>

24 messages 2000/08/30
[#4653] Re: Andy and Dave's European Tour 2000 — matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto) 2000/08/30

Hi,

[#4657] Ruby tutorials for newbie — Kevin Liang <kevin@...> 2000/08/30

Hi,

[ruby-talk:04310] Re: isnan, nan? and ruby versions

From: "Guy N. Hurst" <gnhurst@...>
Date: 2000-08-02 09:24:17 UTC
List: ruby-talk #4310

Robert Feldt wrote:
> ...
> Dave&Andy, LibRef proposal: Stating the Ruby version the lib
> ref refers to?
>

I like this idea.

I also think it would be useful to state what Ruby version each 
particular LibRef entry first appeared in, and also notes about which
version certain enhancements/deprecations occurred in, since Ruby 
development is so dynamic.  For comparison, the online PHP manual does 
this to some extent, and Zend has an even more thorough breakdown at 
<http://www.zend.com/phpfunc/index.php> (see the alphabetical list). 
<http://www.php.net/manual/function.array-reverse.php> (shows version)

It seems to be something commonly requested, and eventually having 
such annotations for Ruby would help developers know what to expect.
I'm not sure there is time to fit it in the book, though.


Guy N. Hurst

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