From: Derek Lewis <lewisd@...00f.net>
Date: 2003-12-18T03:04:15+09:00
Subject: Re: Extracting multiple lines from a file

On Wed, 17 Dec 2003, Dave Thomas wrote:
>
> Do you have the latest 'ri' (from sf/net/projects/rdoc). It's got the
> PickAxe content, updated for 1.8.

Unless I've done something wrong, it looks like Proc.arity still has the
old behavior.  I downloaded ri-1.8b.tgz.

(Notice I'm also getting some strange error from ri.rb)

lewisd@derlewi:~$ ri -v
/usr/local/lib/site_ruby/ri/ri.rb:404: warning: don't put space before
argument parentheses
ri 1.8a
lewisd@derlewi:~$ ri Proc.arity
<snip>
        Proc.new {|a|}.arity       #=> -1
<snip>
lewisd@derlewi:~$ irb
irb(main):001:0> require 'rbconfig'
=> true
irb(main):002:0> include Config
=> Object
irb(main):003:0> CONFIG['ruby_version']
=> "1.8"
irb(main):004:0> Proc.new {|a|}.arity
=> 1
irb(main):005:0> ^D
lewisd@derlewi:~$ ruby --version
ruby 1.8.1 (2003-11-11) [i386-linux]
lewisd@derlewi:~$



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