[#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:6182] Re: Lazy operators

From: "Guy N. Hurst" <gnhurst@...>
Date: 2000-11-08 22:29:41 UTC
List: ruby-talk #6182
Aleksi Niemelwrote:
> ...
> > if month > 2 && month < 7 || month == 11 then .....
> >
> > Why not: if month > 2 ^and^ < 7 ^or^ == 11 then .....
> 
> Oh, this must be your lucky day. I just noticed my version of Ruby (which
> has started to show some signs of hackery) include Lazy operators. :)
> 
> That means you can write the above code as
> 
>   if _(month, _ > 2, And < 7, Or == 11 )
> 
> Here you have too.
> 

Wow, I am delighted that you have met this challenge already :-)
(even though the underscores seem obscure)

Actually, I briefly considered redefining < and >, but dismissed
it thinking I couldn't... thought maybe it would be a parser job.

But it is neat to see something like this!  


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