From: Gavin Sinclair <gsinclair@...>
Date: 2002-10-11T00:48:16+09:00
Subject: Re: Things That Newcomers to Ruby Should Know


From: "Bill Tj" <billtj@glue.umd.edu> [snipped]


> Hi Mauricio, Gavin, Bulat,
>
> Probably not everyone will agree, but I intend to keep the list as
> minimal as possible, so that a person can finish reading it in
> probably less than 15 minutes.  With that, as the title implies also,
> the list is more about preventing errors than about optimization.
> Therefore, I have put some "extra" things under separate sub-heading
> "Things That Are Good to Know :-)".
>
> Regards,
>
> Bill

Small == Good.

"Things that are good to know" can be one-liners with no explanation, just so
nubies know what to look out for in the documentation, i.e. to whet their
appetite.

Gavin