[#4341] DRY and embedded docs. — Hugh Sasse Staff Elec Eng <hgs@...>
If I have a here document in some ruby program:
[#4347] Re: DATA and rewind. — ts <decoux@...>
>>>>> "H" == Hugh Sasse Staff Elec Eng <hgs@dmu.ac.uk> writes:
[#4350] Re: Thirty-seven Reasons [Hal Fulton] Love[s] Ruby — "David Douthitt" <DDouthitt@...>
[#4396] Re: New Require (was: RAA development ideas (was: RE: Looking for inp ut on a 'links' page)) — Hugh Sasse Staff Elec Eng <hgs@...>
On 9 Aug 2000, Dave Thomas wrote:
[#4411] Re: RAA development ideas (was: RE: Lookin g for inp ut on a 'links' page) — Aleksi Niemel<aleksi.niemela@...>
Me:
On Thu, 10 Aug 2000, [iso-8859-1] Aleksi Niemelwrote:
[#4465] More RubyUnit questions. — Hugh Sasse Staff Elec Eng <hgs@...>
I am beginning to get a feel for this, but I still have a few more
[#4478] Re: RubyUnit. Warnings to be expected? — ts <decoux@...>
>>>>> "H" == Hugh Sasse Staff Elec Eng <hgs@dmu.ac.uk> writes:
[#4481] Invoking an extension after compilation — Dave Thomas <Dave@...>
Hi,
[#4501] What's the biggest Ruby development? — Dave Thomas <Dave@...>
[#4502] methods w/ ! giving nil — Hugh Sasse Staff Elec Eng <hgs@...>
I have got used to the idea that methods that end in '!' return nil if
[#4503] RubyUnit and encapsulation. — Hugh Sasse Staff Elec Eng <hgs@...>
My_class's instance variables are not all "attr :<name>" type variables,
[#4537] Process.wait bug + fix — Brian Fundakowski Feldman <green@...>
If your system uses the rb_waitpid() codepath of rb_f_wait(),
[#4567] Re: What's the biggest Ruby development? — Aleksi Niemel<aleksi.niemela@...>
Dave said:
Robert Feldt <feldt@ce.chalmers.se> writes:
On Sat, 26 Aug 2000, Dave Thomas wrote:
Robert Feldt <feldt@ce.chalmers.se> writes:
On Mon, 28 Aug 2000, Dave Thomas wrote:
Robert Feldt <feldt@ce.chalmers.se> writes:
[#4591] Can't get Tcl/Tk working — Stephen White <steve@...>
I can't get any of the samples in the ext/tk/sample directory working. All
I'm sure looking forwards to buying the book. :)
Stephen White <steve@deaf.org> writes:
On Sun, 27 Aug 2000, Dave Thomas wrote:
Stephen White <steve@deaf.org> writes:
[#4608] Class methods — Mark Slagell <ms@...>
Reading the thread about regexp matches made me wonder about this:
[#4611] mod_ruby 0.1.19 — shreeve@...2s.org (Steve Shreeve)
Shugo (and others),
[#4633] Printing tables — DaVinci <bombadil@...>
Hi.
[#4647] Function argument lists in parentheses? — Toby Hutton <thutton@...>
Hello,
[#4652] Andy and Dave's European Tour 2000 — Dave Thomas <Dave@...>
Hi,
[#4672] calling super from c — Robert Feldt <feldt@...>
[#4699] Double parenthesis — Klaus Spreckelsen <ks@...1.ruhr-uni-bochum.de>
Why is the first line ok, but the second line is not?
[ruby-talk:04370] Re: DRY and embedded docs.
Hi, "Hal E. Fulton" wrote: > > Your premises are correct, but I disagree with your > conclusions... :) > > When a usage message is printed, efficiency matters > very little. Milliseconds are insignificant when the user > is expected to spend several seconds visually scanning > the output... > > Of course, it might be considered a little inelegant. There > might still be A Better Way... > > Hal > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Toshiro Kuwabara <toshirok@yb3.so-net.ne.jp> > To: ruby-talk ML <ruby-talk@netlab.co.jp> > Sent: Tuesday, August 08, 2000 10:03 AM > Subject: [ruby-talk:04354] Re: DRY and embedded docs. > > > Hi, > > > > In message "[ruby-talk:04353] Re: DRY and embedded docs." > > on 00/08/08, Dave Thomas <Dave@thomases.com> writes: > > >I think the latter would be nice. Perhaps it should look for an entry > > >such as > > > > > > = Usage > > > > > >and just format that. That way, you could just output the usage > > >section of a larger RD document. > > > > > > > > >What do people think? > > > > Printing Usage message is one of user interface, so a program > > should print it as quickly as possible, but RDtool way of > > parsing RD is highly costed, maybe. I'm not familiar with all the formatting features, but is included files one of them? Also, what if you have multiple "= Usage" entries (perhaps with the relevant code)? Would they be concatenated? In a large multi-file program, such types of processing might take a noticeable amount of time. JM2CW -- Conrad Schneiker (This note is unofficial and subject to improvement without notice.)