From: Robert Cowham <rc@...>
Date: 2002-12-04T03:07:57+09:00
Subject: Re: The "funny sumbols" FAQ

"Gavin Sinclair" <gsinclair@soyabean.com.au> wrote in
news:071401c29a9b$c2937fd0$d44532d2@nosedog: 

> I'm proud to announce that there is now a FAQ entry describing most of
> the @!#$#%^-etc you see in Ruby code.  This is thanks to extensive
> discussion on the list, and hopefully will be of great help to newbies
> in the future. 
> 
> So in future, if someone asks what a certain symbol means, by all
> means answer their question, but also point them to the FAQ for
> further information.  It's question 6.12, which we'll all forget and
> which may change.  Also, they may not be able to find the FAQ, but
> that's a different story... 

> http://www.rubygarden.org/iowa/faqtotum

Looks good so far. I'd like to see an explanation of things like:

$:

as well...

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Robert Cowham