From: Shashank Date <sdate@...>
Date: 2003-06-21T11:39:45+09:00
Subject: Re: reading ruby source


"daz" <dooby@d10.karoo.co.uk> wrote in message
> If you can accept the recommendation of someone with 10 minutes
> experience, I'd suggest you open up array.c; skip to the bottom
> where there's a list of 'rb_define_method' which are instance
> methods for Array; pick one that has a familiar outcome like ...
>
>   rb_define_method(rb_cArray, "compact", rb_ary_compact, 0);
>
> ... search for rb_ary_compact, ignore 'rb_ary_compact_bang' for
> a moment and you'll see that pretty soon one calls the other.
> You can see the whole thing in a few lines.

Yes, I will definitely accept this recommendation because it makes sense.

[snip]

>  Whenever I try to compile anything on Windows, I get
>  an error message saying:-
>  "Go away, you idiot." even though I've raked together every
> Mingw, UNIXtool, Borland free compiler, DevC++ package that

I have used MSVC++ 6.0 and it works fine. No surprise there.

> Thanks for listening,

Thanks for talking.

> daz

-- shanko