[#5218] Ruby Book Eng tl, ch1 question — Jon Babcock <jon@...>

13 messages 2000/10/02

[#5404] Object.foo, setters and so on — "Hal E. Fulton" <hal9000@...>

OK, here is what I think I know.

14 messages 2000/10/11

[#5425] Ruby Book Eng. tl, 9.8.11 -- seishitsu ? — Jon Babcock <jon@...>

18 messages 2000/10/11
[#5427] RE: Ruby Book Eng. tl, 9.8.11 -- seishitsu ? — OZAWA -Crouton- Sakuro <crouton@...> 2000/10/11

At Thu, 12 Oct 2000 03:49:46 +0900,

[#5429] Re: Ruby Book Eng. tl, 9.8.11 -- seishitsu ? — Jon Babcock <jon@...> 2000/10/11

Thanks for the input.

[#5432] Re: Ruby Book Eng. tl, 9.8.11 -- seishitsu ? — Yasushi Shoji <yashi@...> 2000/10/11

At Thu, 12 Oct 2000 04:53:41 +0900,

[#5516] Re: Some newbye question — ts <decoux@...>

>>>>> "D" == Davide Marchignoli <marchign@di.unipi.it> writes:

80 messages 2000/10/13
[#5531] Re: Some newbye question — matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto) 2000/10/14

Hi,

[#5544] Re: Some newbye question — Davide Marchignoli <marchign@...> 2000/10/15

On Sat, 14 Oct 2000, Yukihiro Matsumoto wrote:

[#5576] Re: local variables (nested, in-block, parameters, etc.) — Dave Thomas <Dave@...> 2000/10/16

matz@zetabits.com (Yukihiro Matsumoto) writes:

[#5617] Re: local variables (nested, in-block, parameters, etc.) — "Brian F. Feldman" <green@...> 2000/10/16

Dave Thomas <Dave@thomases.com> wrote:

[#5705] Dynamic languages, SWOT ? — Hugh Sasse Staff Elec Eng <hgs@...>

There has been discussion on this list/group from time to time about

16 messages 2000/10/20
[#5712] Re: Dynamic languages, SWOT ? — Charles Hixson <charleshixsn@...> 2000/10/20

Hugh Sasse Staff Elec Eng wrote:

[#5882] [RFC] Towards a new synchronisation primitive — hipster <hipster@...4all.nl>

Hello fellow rubyists,

21 messages 2000/10/26

[ruby-talk:5860] Re: Symbolic evaluation without quoting trick.

From: "Hal E. Fulton" <hal9000@...>
Date: 2000-10-26 04:29:14 UTC
List: ruby-talk #5860
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From: Mathieu Bouchard <matju@cam.org>
To: ruby-talk ML <ruby-talk@netlab.co.jp>
Sent: Wednesday, October 25, 2000 9:08 PM
Subject: [ruby-talk:5859] Re: Symbolic evaluation without quoting trick.


> > # > I thought some people here might find the following trick useful,
> > # > possibly for other sorts of applications.
> > # >   Re: ANNOUNCE: PySymbolic - Doing Symbolics in Python
> > # I think there was a 10-line Perl example for that. Maybe in Conway's 
> > book.
> > Found it.
> > It's actually an interesting 1+ page long example of a Roman numerals
> > class (in chapter 10 on operator overloading). 
> 
> I'm not talking about roman numerals nor klingon mathematics. I'm talking
> about building s-exps (in the shape of arrays) using perl expressions and
> operator overloading. I thought it was in book. (I also thought it was
> in "perldoc overload" but it wasn't.)
> 
> matju
> 

What are s-expressions? Is this symbolic math, as in symbolic
differentiation and so on?

Hal




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