[#6363] Re: rescue clause affecting IO loop behavior — ts <decoux@...>

>>>>> "D" == David Alan Black <dblack@candle.superlink.net> writes:

17 messages 2000/11/14
[#6367] Re: rescue clause affecting IO loop behavior — David Alan Black <dblack@...> 2000/11/14

Hello again --

[#6582] best way to interleaf arrays? — David Alan Black <dblack@...>

Hello --

15 messages 2000/11/26

[#6646] RE: Array Intersect (&) question — Aleksi Niemel<aleksi.niemela@...>

Ross asked something about widely known and largely ignored language (on

23 messages 2000/11/29
[#6652] RE: Array Intersect (&) question — rpmohn@... (Ross Mohn) 2000/11/29

aleksi.niemela@cinnober.com (Aleksi Niemel) wrote in

[#6723] Re: Array Intersect (&) question — Mathieu Bouchard <matju@...> 2000/12/01

> >Use a hash. Here's code to do both and more. It assumes that

[#6656] printing/accessing arrays and hashes — raja@... (Raja S.)

I'm coming to Ruby with a Python & Common Lisp background.

24 messages 2000/11/30

[ruby-talk:6096] Re: detect:ifNone: in Ruby

From: Dave Thomas <Dave@...>
Date: 2000-11-07 04:05:32 UTC
List: ruby-talk #6096
matz@zetabits.com (Yukihiro Matsumoto) writes:

> I don't vote for `ifNil' with or without `?'.  With `?' it too looks
> like `nil?'.  Without `?', the name convention is Smalltalkish, not
> Ruby way.  If we can find better name, I agree to add the method to
> the next version.

I guess that if the block form isn't important we _could_ just use
'or'...

        x = (a.detect {|i| i == 2} or 99)

(btw. This is an interesting case where the precedence rules just
can't win... ;-)


Dave

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