From: Matt Gushee <mgushee@...>
Date: 2002-08-30T08:09:58+09:00
Subject: Re: suggestions to the Ruby community

On Fri, Aug 30, 2002 at 07:53:51AM +0900, stibbs wrote:

> >> english speaking ruby users should get together and copy the idea of
> >> python's module index.
> > 
> > Python's module index? I'm also a Python user, but I'm not sure what you
> > are referring to.
>  
> http://www.python.org/doc/current/modindex.html

Oh, *that* module index. I thought you meant something else.

On Fri, Aug 30, 2002 at 07:56:22AM +0900,  JamesBritt wrote:
> >
> > Documentation:
> >
> > english speaking ruby users should get together and copy the idea of
> > python's module index.
> 
> 
> What is that? Could you describe it for those of us not that familiar with
> Python?

It's really just a simple index that allows you to look up any of
Python's standard library modules by name. Since there are a lot of
modules, it's very helpful when you have an idea what you're looking for
but forget what part of the documentation it lives in.

In Python, BTW, a 'module' is roughly equivalent to a 'library' (?) in
Ruby. It corresponds to one source code file, and contains one or more
class and/or function definitions.

Python has no direct equivalent to a Ruby module.

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Matt Gushee
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