[#14696] Inconsistency in rescuability of "return" — Charles Oliver Nutter <charles.nutter@...>

Why can you not rescue return, break, etc when they are within

21 messages 2008/01/02
[#14699] Re: Inconsistency in rescuability of "return" — Gary Wright <gwtmp01@...> 2008/01/02

[#14738] Enumerable#zip Needs Love — James Gray <james@...>

The community has been building a Ruby 1.9 compatibility tip list on

15 messages 2008/01/03
[#14755] Re: Enumerable#zip Needs Love — Martin Duerst <duerst@...> 2008/01/04

Hello James,

[#14772] Manual Memory Management — Pramukta Kumar <prak@...>

I was thinking it would be nice to be able to free large objects at

36 messages 2008/01/04
[#14788] Re: Manual Memory Management — Marcin Raczkowski <mailing.mr@...> 2008/01/05

I would only like to add that RMgick for example provides free method to

[#14824] Re: Manual Memory Management — MenTaLguY <mental@...> 2008/01/07

On Sat, 5 Jan 2008 15:49:30 +0900, Marcin Raczkowski <mailing.mr@gmail.com> wrote:

[#14825] Re: Manual Memory Management — "Evan Weaver" <evan@...> 2008/01/07

Python supports 'del reference', which decrements the reference

[#14838] Re: Manual Memory Management — Marcin Raczkowski <mailing.mr@...> 2008/01/08

Evan Weaver wrote:

[#14911] Draft of some pages about encoding in Ruby 1.9 — Dave Thomas <dave@...>

Folks:

24 messages 2008/01/10

[#14976] nil encoding as synonym for binary encoding — David Flanagan <david@...>

The following just appeared in the ChangeLog

37 messages 2008/01/11
[#14977] Re: nil encoding as synonym for binary encoding — Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@...> 2008/01/11

Hi,

[#14978] Re: nil encoding as synonym for binary encoding — Dave Thomas <dave@...> 2008/01/11

[#14979] Re: nil encoding as synonym for binary encoding — David Flanagan <david@...> 2008/01/11

Dave Thomas wrote:

[#14993] Re: nil encoding as synonym for binary encoding — Dave Thomas <dave@...> 2008/01/11

[#14980] Re: nil encoding as synonym for binary encoding — Gary Wright <gwtmp01@...> 2008/01/11

[#14981] Re: nil encoding as synonym for binary encoding — Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@...> 2008/01/11

Hi,

[#14995] Re: nil encoding as synonym for binary encoding — David Flanagan <david@...> 2008/01/11

Yukihiro Matsumoto writes:

[#15050] how to "borrow" the RDoc::RubyParser and HTMLGenerator — Phlip <phlip2005@...>

Core Rubies:

17 messages 2008/01/13
[#15060] Re: how to "borrow" the RDoc::RubyParser and HTMLGenerator — Eric Hodel <drbrain@...7.net> 2008/01/14

On Jan 13, 2008, at 08:54 AM, Phlip wrote:

[#15062] Re: how to "borrow" the RDoc::RubyParser and HTMLGenerator — Phlip <phlip2005@...> 2008/01/14

Eric Hodel wrote:

[#15073] Re: how to "borrow" the RDoc::RubyParser and HTMLGenerator — Eric Hodel <drbrain@...7.net> 2008/01/14

On Jan 13, 2008, at 20:35 PM, Phlip wrote:

[#15185] Friendlier methods to compare two Time objects — "Jim Cropcho" <jim.cropcho@...>

Hello,

10 messages 2008/01/22

[#15194] Can large scale projects be successful implemented around a dynamic programming language? — Jordi <mumismo@...>

A good article I have found (may have been linked by slashdot, don't know)

8 messages 2008/01/24

[#15248] Symbol#empty? ? — "David A. Black" <dblack@...>

Hi --

24 messages 2008/01/28
[#15250] Re: Symbol#empty? ? — Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@...> 2008/01/28

Hi,

Re: Symbol#empty? ?

From: "Alexey Verkhovsky" <alexey.verkhovsky@...>
Date: 2008-01-28 03:15:36 UTC
List: ruby-core #15252
On Jan 27, 2008 7:54 PM, Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@ruby-lang.org> wrote:
> Which do you prefer?

+1 for allowing :""
The way trunk is right now, is not quite consistent:

irb(main):001:0> :""
SyntaxError: (irb):1: empty symbol literal
        from /home/alexeyv/ruby/lib/ruby/1.9.0/irb/workspace.rb:80:in `eval'
        from /home/alexeyv/ruby/lib/ruby/1.9.0/irb/workspace.rb:80:in `evaluate'
        from /home/alexeyv/ruby/lib/ruby/1.9.0/irb/context.rb:218:in `evaluate'
        from /home/alexeyv/ruby/lib/ruby/1.9.0/irb.rb:149:in `block (2
levels) in eval_input'
        from /home/alexeyv/ruby/lib/ruby/1.9.0/irb.rb:258:in `signal_status'
        from /home/alexeyv/ruby/lib/ruby/1.9.0/irb.rb:146:in `block in
eval_input'
        from /home/alexeyv/ruby/lib/ruby/1.9.0/irb/ruby-lex.rb:243:in
`block (2 levels) in each_top_level_statement'
        from /home/alexeyv/ruby/lib/ruby/1.9.0/irb/ruby-lex.rb:230:in `loop'
        from /home/alexeyv/ruby/lib/ruby/1.9.0/irb/ruby-lex.rb:230:in
`block in each_top_level_statement'
        from /home/alexeyv/ruby/lib/ruby/1.9.0/irb/ruby-lex.rb:229:in `catch'
        from /home/alexeyv/ruby/lib/ruby/1.9.0/irb/ruby-lex.rb:229:in
`each_top_level_statement'
        from /home/alexeyv/ruby/lib/ruby/1.9.0/irb.rb:145:in `eval_input'
        from /home/alexeyv/ruby/lib/ruby/1.9.0/irb.rb:69:in `block in start'
        from /home/alexeyv/ruby/lib/ruby/1.9.0/irb.rb:68:in `catch'
        from /home/alexeyv/ruby/lib/ruby/1.9.0/irb.rb:68:in `start'
        from ./irb:12:in `<main>'
Maybe IRB bug!!
irb(main):002:0> "".intern
=> :""



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Alexey Verkhovsky
CruiseControl.rb [http://cruisecontrolrb.thoughtworks.com]
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