From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2000-10-12T13:02:52+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:5447] Re: Ruby Book Eng. tl, 9.8.11 -- seishitsu ?

Hi,

In message "[ruby-talk:5429] Re: Ruby Book Eng. tl, 9.8.11 -- seishitsu ?"
    on 00/10/12, Jon Babcock <jon@kanji.com> writes:

|I think my brain has stopped, but this doesn't make sense to me. I
|must be overlooking a key nuance.

SugHimsi's comment in [ruby-talk:5431] is correct.  Translation should
be something like:

  Due to C's characteristic, the function need not to take 2nd and 3rd
  arguments if it does not use them.

Hope this helps.

							matz.