From: Hugh Sasse Staff Elec Eng <hgs@...>
Date: 2000-11-15T19:53:21+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:6383] 1.6.x documentation.

On Tue, 14 Nov 2000, Yukihiro Matsumoto wrote:

>
> There's only one reference for 1.6 now;  The Dave&Any book.
> Sorry for (mostly economical) inconvenience.
>
>                                                       matz.

On Wed, 15 Nov 2000, Dave Thomas wrote:

> This one kind of snuck up on us, and we didn't have time to add it
> before printing.
>    
>      
> "If it's on paper, it's out of date"
> 

Given that:
    1.6 has new features over 1.4
        class variables, block_given?, ...;
    more people are joining the community because of the book;
    we are already discussing adding more features (when(nil), etc);
    people look on-line for information (as I did w/ Python [map, filter,
        reduce]);
    when people look on-line they will certainly look at ruby-lang.org;
    different slants on documentation may suit different people, so
	that whilest the library ref at rubycentral is excellent, there
        is room for "competing" documentation;
may I suggest that updates to the 1.4 docs at ruby-lang.org be accepted
so that they can be brought up to date with 1.6.x, and then used as
a basis for the preparation of /1\.[78]\.\d/ docs?  

	Hugh