[#5999] Re: Custom installation (1.6.1) — ts <decoux@...>
>>>>> "D" == David Suarez de Lis <excalibor@demasiado.com> writes:
[#6019] Time.local bug? — hal9000@...
Please tell me this is a bug, not a feature.
[#6028] Ref.: Re: Time.local bug? — David Suarez de Lis <excalibor@...>
Hi,
[#6042] Re: Time.local bug? — ts <decoux@...>
>>>>> "H" == Hugh Sasse Staff Elec Eng <hgs@dmu.ac.uk> writes:
[#6074] Re: Cygwin conflicts — "Conrad Schneiker/Austin/Contr/IBM" <schneik@...>
Conrad Schneiker wrote:
[#6078] Programming Ruby ranking — Aleksi Niemel<aleksi.niemela@...>
Just a small note how the Ruby book sells:
[#6083] ANN: Single step Ruby installation for Windows — Dave Thomas <Dave@...>
[#6092] Re: detect:ifNone: in Ruby — Aleksi Niemel<aleksi.niemela@...>
> I like it. You can also mess around with the built in classes to get
[#6097] Re: detect:ifNone: in Ruby — Aleksi Niemel<aleksi.niemela@...>
matz queries:
[#6102] What would a Ruby browser look like? — Dave Thomas <Dave@...>
[#6106] Re: What would a Ruby browser look like? — "Conrad Schneiker/Austin/Contr/IBM" <schneik@...>
Stephen White writes:
People are already talking about using Tk to do this, or doing it as a WWW
[#6121] More Date/Time inconsistencies — David Suarez de Lis <excalibor@...>
Hi all,
[#6122] Ruby Book, Eng. tl, 6.1 -- aimai ? — Jon Babcock <jon@...>
[#6138] Thoughts on a Ruby browser — hal9000@...
I have to issue a disclaimer first, that I am not a code browser user,
[#6143] Re: What would a Ruby browser look like? — "Conrad Schneiker/Austin/Contr/IBM" <schneik@...>
Matz writes:
[#6149] Ruby hi(gh), and pointer to Jotto program — David Alan Black <dblack@...>
Hello --
David Alan Black <dblack@candle.superlink.net> writes:
[#6181] Minimal but practically useful Ruby browser? — "Conrad Schneiker/Austin/Contr/IBM" <schneik@...>
Hi,
[#6206] Re: marshal.dump again — ts <decoux@...>
>>>>> "H" == Hugh Sasse Staff Elec Eng <hgs@dmu.ac.uk> writes:
[#6220] ruby-lang.org — Dave Thomas <Dave@...>
[#6246] Re: quiz of the week — "Brian F. Feldman" <green@...>
"Brian F. Feldman" <green@FreeBSD.org> wrote:
> In case anyone wants something else to try an example of how fun
[#6288] lchown()/etc. and Unix syscall completeness — "Brian F. Feldman" <green@...>
Ruby as it is now isn't very consistent with the system calls it provides.
[#6316] Q: Sandbox security, SAFE and system — Robert Feldt <feldt@...>
Hi,
[#6346] Re: Another Smalltalk control structure idea — "Conrad Schneiker/Austin/Contr/IBM" <schneik@...>
Matz writes:
On Tue, 14 Nov 2000 15:29:31 +0900, Conrad Schneiker/Austin/Contr/IBM wrote:
[#6363] Re: rescue clause affecting IO loop behavior — ts <decoux@...>
>>>>> "D" == David Alan Black <dblack@candle.superlink.net> writes:
Hello again --
matz@zetabits.com (Yukihiro Matsumoto) writes:
[#6383] 1.6.x documentation. — Hugh Sasse Staff Elec Eng <hgs@...>
On Tue, 14 Nov 2000, Yukihiro Matsumoto wrote:
[#6386] lots of Threads — Hugh Sasse Staff Elec Eng <hgs@...>
If I have an array to be filled with computationally heavy stuff,
Hugh Sasse Staff Elec Eng <hgs@dmu.ac.uk> writes:
On Thu, 16 Nov 2000, Dave Thomas wrote:
On Thu, 16 Nov 2000 19:59:07 +0900, Hugh Sasse Staff Elec Eng wrote:
[#6412] clas << a & Pascal's with <record> do...end — Hugh Sasse Staff Elec Eng <hgs@...>
I was thinking that when a lot of work must be done on an object
[#6417] Where is T_RANGE? — Robert Feldt <feldt@...>
Hi,
[#6444] Ruby tokenizer for Ruby — Charles Hixson <charleshixson@...>
Does anyone know of a Ruby tokenizer for Ruby? In particular, I am bother
[#6461] Is there a FITS_IN_UINT(v)? — Robert Feldt <feldt@...>
Hi,
Robert Feldt <feldt@ce.chalmers.se> writes:
[#6476] %x{...} and ` not working? — Niklas Backlund <d99-nba@...>
Hi,
[#6485] Re: GUI in ruby — "Conrad Schneiker" <schneik@...>
Hi,
[#6491] comp.lang.tcl -- The "Batteries Included" Distribution [LONG] — "Conrad Schneiker" <schneik@...>
Hi,
On Tue, 21 Nov 2000 16:58:30 +0900, Conrad Schneiker wrote:
[#6503] redefining methods in a hierarchy. — Hugh Sasse Staff Elec Eng <hgs@...>
If I have an object which I know to be a subclass of a subclass (at lease)
[#6518] Re: Question about the behavior of write att ributes in blocks — Aleksi Niemel<aleksi.niemela@...>
> Is it at all possible to write an iterator, which allows assignments
Thank you for explanation - the output of "x".inspect() is
"Christoph Rippel" <chr@subdimension.com> writes:
I lifted the following two lines from your (great) book - Page 285
[#6521] Time Trouble — Niklas Backlund <d99-nba@...>
Hi,
[#6523] alias_method and > and < — Hugh Sasse Staff Elec Eng <hgs@...>
The operators > and < don't seem to be in the list of things one cannot
[#6550] Note on docs for Array#reverse! — Robert Feldt <feldt@...>
[#6571] Re: Ruby/C extension build question — Arjen Laarhoven <arjen@...>
Oops:
[#6579] ANN: Ruby/GDChart 0.0.1 available — Arjen Laarhoven <arjen@...>
Hi all,
[#6582] best way to interleaf arrays? — David Alan Black <dblack@...>
Hello --
David Alan Black <dblack@candle.superlink.net> wrote:
David Alan Black <dblack@candle.superlink.net> writes:
David Alan Black <dblack@candle.superlink.net> writes:
On Tue, 28 Nov 2000, Dave Thomas wrote:
[#6597] Question on sort! — Dave Thomas <Dave@...>
matz@zetabits.com (Yukihiro Matsumoto) writes:
Hi,
> The latter can be avoided if one follows the no-bang-method-chain
[#6642] Hash with a key of nil ? — rpmohn@... (Ross Mohn)
While reading data in from a file and populating a hash, I accidentally
[#6646] RE: Array Intersect (&) question — Aleksi Niemel<aleksi.niemela@...>
Ross asked something about widely known and largely ignored language (on
aleksi.niemela@cinnober.com (Aleksi Niemel) wrote in
> >Use a hash. Here's code to do both and more. It assumes that
----- Original Message -----
Hi,
[#6656] printing/accessing arrays and hashes — raja@... (Raja S.)
I'm coming to Ruby with a Python & Common Lisp background.
matz@zetabits.com (Yukihiro Matsumoto) writes:
[#6666] Suggestion for addition to Begin/End syntax — drew@... (Andrew D. McDowell)
Hi all.
[ruby-talk:6623] Re: Question on sort!
matz@zetabits.com (Yukihiro Matsumoto) writes:
> In message "[ruby-talk:6601] Re: Question on sort!"
> on 00/11/28, Dave Thomas <Dave@thomases.com> writes:
>
> | ary.sort!.reverse!.each {...
> |
> |It works fine 99.999% of the time, but occasionally fails with some
> |message about some undefined method and nil...
> |
> |Perhaps we're extending the wrong principle here. Just because _some_
> |! methods return nil, should all of them?
>
> OK, OK. Let's discuss.
>
> The principle above have both pro and con.
>
> (+) consistency.
> (-) returning nil somtimes breaks method chains.
>
> The latter can be avoided if one follows the no-bang-method-chain
> rule. But I don't force you to agree with me (yet ;-).
>
> matz.
I vote for consistency. I also invoke the "rule of least surprise":
irb> p [].sort
[]
nil
irb> p [].sort!
nil
nil
Perhaps it's too late to change, but I don't like the fact that bang
methods return nil.
Jim
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