[#600] A `File' is not a `IO'????? — clemens.hintze@...

17 messages 1999/08/10
[#602] Re: A `File' is not a `IO'????? — matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto) 1999/08/10

Hi,

[#679] Documentation about RD? — Clemens Hintze <c.hintze@...>

Hi,

78 messages 1999/08/17
[#680] Summary of discussion about RD (Re: Documentation about RD?) — Toshiro Kuwabara <toshirok@...3.so-net.ne.jp> 1999/08/18

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[#683] Re: Summary of discussion about RD (Re: Documenta tion about RD?) — clemens.hintze@... 1999/08/18

On 18 Aug, Toshiro Kuwabara wrote:

[#686] Re: Summary of discussion about RD (Re: Documenta tion about RD?) — gotoken@... (GOTO Kentaro) 1999/08/18

Hi,

[#687] Re: Summary of discussion about RD (Re: Docum enta tion about RD?) — clemens.hintze@... 1999/08/18

On 18 Aug, GOTO Kentaro wrote:

[#693] Re: Summary of discussion about RD (Re: Docum enta tion about RD?) — Toshiro Kuwabara <toshirok@...3.so-net.ne.jp> 1999/08/18

Hi,

[#695] Re: Summary of discussion about RD (Re: Docum enta tion about RD?) — Clemens Hintze <c.hintze@...> 1999/08/18

On 19 Aug, Toshiro Kuwabara wrote:

[#697] Re: Summary of discussion about RD (Re: Docum enta tion about RD?) — Toshiro Kuwabara <toshirok@...3.so-net.ne.jp> 1999/08/19

Hi,

[#703] Re: Summary of discussion about RD (Re: Docum enta tion about RD?) — Clemens Hintze <c.hintze@...> 1999/08/19

On 19 Aug, Toshiro Kuwabara wrote:

[#706] Re: Summary of discussion about RD (Re: Docum enta tion about RD?) — Toshiro Kuwabara <toshirok@...3.so-net.ne.jp> 1999/08/19

Hi,

[#681] Re: Summary of discussion about RD (Re: Documentation about RD?) — gotoken@... (GOTO Kentaro) 1999/08/18

Hi,

[#682] Re: Summary of discussion about RD (Re: Documentation about RD?) — Toshiro Kuwabara <toshirok@...3.so-net.ne.jp> 1999/08/18

Hi,

[#684] Re: Summary of discussion about RD (Re: Documentation about RD?) — TAKAHASHI Masayoshi <maki@...> 1999/08/18

Hi Tosh and all,

[#685] Re: Summary of discussion about RD (Re: Documentation about RD?) — gotoken@... (GOTO Kentaro) 1999/08/18

Hi,

[#689] Re: Summary of discussion about RD (Re: Documentation about RD?) — Toshiro Kuwabara <toshirok@...3.so-net.ne.jp> 1999/08/18

Hi,

[#694] Re: Summary of discussion about RD (Re: Documentation about RD?) — matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto) 1999/08/18

Hi,

[#700] Re: Summary of discussion about RD (Re: Documentation about RD?) — Toshiro Kuwabara <toshirok@...3.so-net.ne.jp> 1999/08/19

Hi,

[#702] Re: Summary of discussion about RD (Re: Documentation about RD?) — matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto) 1999/08/19

Hi,

[#704] Re: Summary of discussion about RD (Re: Docum entation about RD?) — Clemens Hintze <c.hintze@...> 1999/08/19

On 19 Aug, Yukihiro Matsumoto wrote:

[#719] Re: Summary of discussion about RD (Re: Docum entation about RD?) — Toshiro Kuwabara <toshirok@...3.so-net.ne.jp> 1999/08/20

Hi,

[#720] Re: Summary of discussion about RD (Re: Docum entation about RD?) — clemens.hintze@... 1999/08/20

On 20 Aug, Toshiro Kuwabara wrote:

[#721] Re: Summary of discussion about RD (Re: Docum entation about RD?) — Toshiro Kuwabara <toshirok@...3.so-net.ne.jp> 1999/08/20

Hi,

[#722] Re: Summary of discussion about RD (Re: Docum entation about RD?) — clemens.hintze@... 1999/08/20

On 21 Aug, Toshiro Kuwabara wrote:

[#723] Re: Summary of discussion about RD (Re: Docum entation about RD?) — Toshiro Kuwabara <toshirok@...3.so-net.ne.jp> 1999/08/20

Hi,

[#737] RD with multi charset — Minero Aoki <aamine@...>

Hi, I'm Minero Aoki. This is my first mail in this mailling list.

26 messages 1999/08/22

[ruby-talk:00619] Re: Bug in Array#clone!

From: clemens.hintze@...
Date: 1999-08-11 08:05:46 UTC
List: ruby-talk #619
On 11 Aug, Yukihiro Matsumoto wrote:
> 
> In message "[ruby-talk:00613] Re: Bug in Array#clone!"
>     on 99/08/11, GOTO Kentaro <gotoken@math.sci.hokudai.ac.jp> writes:
> 

[...]
 
> What information should be copied by dup?  Any opinion?

Sorry, no opinion! But as `clone' and `dup' are grouped together in the
manual like:

      clone 
      dup 

            Returns the copy of the object. For cloned object, ...

I have silently assumed, that they are synonymous. A proposal:

	Whenever methods do the same work with little difference you
	could group them, and differ them in the description. For
	example:

	getc
	readchar

	    Returns a character read from the receiver. In case of EOF,
	    getc returns nil, and readchar will raise an EOFError.

  	Or so...

	But functions that do different things like `dup' and `clone',
	it would be better, IMHO, to separate them in the description
	and point to each other to show the difference.

Ruby has some alias names like `IO#each' and `IO#each_line'. They are
described together like `clone' and `dup'. So it is not too difficult
to get the impressions, that all names described in that fashion are,
more or less, equal.

What do you think?

> 
>                                                 matz.

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