From: dblack@... Date: 2002-12-01T12:09:16+09:00 Subject: Re: Cipher book for ruby Hi -- On Sun, 1 Dec 2002, Shannon Fang wrote: > Hi all ruby gurus there, > > I suggest if some one can initiate a documentation project for ruby? I > would call it The Ruby Cipher Book, or Ruby Demystified. In this > document, all ruby symobs, prefixes suffixes are explained, with > reference to the chapter in the online manual... I thought there was something like that around (a concordance to the online pickaxe) but I can't seem to pinpoint it (assuming it actually exists in the first place). Anyway, you might also be interested in the rubydoc book project: . It's an ongoing, online, collaborative Ruby book. If you do start a new documentation project, I'd encourage you not to use a name that makes it sound like Ruby is somehow mystifying or cryptic in the first place. Ruby is actually unusually clear and transparent in its syntax. Of course there are things whose meaning isn't clear until you learn them specifically -- but that's true in any programming language, and it would be misleading to give the impression that learning Ruby equates to demystifying it. David -- David Alan Black home: dblack@candle.superlink.net work: blackdav@shu.edu Web: http://pirate.shu.edu/~blackdav