From: Nikolai Weibull <ruby-talk@...>
Date: 2003-12-09T08:17:47+09:00
Subject: [ANN] ruby-lisp-0.2.0

ruby-lisp-0.2.0 is Released!
============================

A new version of ruby-lisp has hit the streets.  Check it out at

	http://rubyforge.org/project/showfiles.php?group_id=109

and get back to me if you have any comments.  Thanks!


ChangeLog
=========

Not much is new in the code.  The package has been greatly enhanced
though, including a setup.rb to actually allow you to install it in a
nice way.  There's also a new webpage for it, located at

	http://ned.rubyforge.org/ruby-lisp/

which is just a HTML rendition of the README file at the moment.


So what is ruby-lisp?
=====================

It is a module for implementing nice Lisp features for use in Ruby.
Currently the only sub-module that exists is Lisp::Format, which
implements Lisp's (format) function and its formatting language.  For
people not familiar with this language, it is a very expressive
string formatting language, much like sprintf()'s, but much more
powerful.  It allows for iteration, case conversion, conditionals, and
much more.  If you have ever felt stupid while creating a string
iteratively, to print an array or some such, this is definitely for you!


Documentation
=============

There is extensive documentation, both of the implementation and how to
use the formatting language and its constructs, embedded in the source
using RDoc.  To generate the documentation, simply run RDoc on
format.rb:
	rdoc -T kilmer format.rb
(or skip the -T kilmer if you don't want that theme).  RDoc can be found
at
	http://rdoc.sourceforge.net/

enjoy,
	nikolai

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