[#1378] differences between Module and Class ? — Mathieu Bouchard <matju@...>

25 messages 2003/08/11
[#1387] Re: differences between Module and Class ? — matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto) 2003/08/12

Hi,

[#1442] Re: differences between Module and Class ? — Mathieu Bouchard <matju@...> 2003/08/21

[#1406] _id2ref bug? — Ryan Pavlik <rpav@...>

While debugging some caching code, I've come across a segfault related

22 messages 2003/08/14
[#1407] Re: _id2ref bug? — matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto) 2003/08/14

Hi,

[#1413] Re: _id2ref bug? (REPRODUCED, short) — Ryan Pavlik <rpav@...> 2003/08/14

On Fri, 15 Aug 2003 01:57:18 +0900

Re: Std lib and updating PickAxe (was Re: proc/block with return)

From: Elliott Hughes <ehughes@...>
Date: 2003-08-13 08:48:23 UTC
List: ruby-core #1395
For what it's worth, that's one of my minor niggles with the pickaxe book
--- the distinction between the different library reference sections seems
arbitrary and serves only to make it slightly harder to find things if you
don't yet know where everything is, because things are no longer in simple
alphabetical order.

All I, as a pragmatic programmer :-), really care about is "is this (an
undeprecated) part of the distribution?" and "what do I 'require' so that I
can use this?"

 -- elliott

-----Original Message-----
From: Gavin Sinclair <gsinclair@soyabean.com.au>
To: ruby-core@ruby-lang.org <ruby-core@ruby-lang.org>
Sent: Wed Aug 13 07:44:08 2003
Subject: Std lib and updating PickAxe (was Re: proc/block with return)

> [Dave wrote:]
> [...] I'm still struggling to get the updated PickAxe done: the
> standard library changes alone are overwhelming. I hope to have a new
> 'ri' out in a week or so, but even that's proving to be a bigger job
> than I thought.

Out of interest, what do you (and others) consider the "standard library"
these days?  1.8.0 saw the inclusion of several packages that were
formerly strictly "third-party", like Test::Unit and REXML.

I still tend to think of classes that "come with Ruby" as being either
built in, standard library or third party - i.e. I make a difference
between "standard library" and "standard distribution".  Perhaps this is
arbitrary.

What are you aiming to cover in the updated PickAxe?  Iff there's benefit
in receiving any help from others (e.g. ruby-doc mailing list), let us
know.

Gavin





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