[#2367] Standard libraries — Dave Thomas <dave@...>

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60 messages 2004/02/11

[#2397] PATCH: deprecate cgi-lib, getopts, importenv, parsearg from standard library — Gavin Sinclair <gsinclair@...>

Index: cgi-lib.rb

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[#2465] PATCH: OpenStruct#initialize to yield self — Gavin Sinclair <gsinclair@...>

This is a common approach I use to object initialization; I don't know

24 messages 2004/02/19

Re: xxx_init_copy

From: Dave Thomas <dave@...>
Date: 2004-02-03 03:49:15 UTC
List: ruby-core #2330
On Feb 2, 2004, at 16:41, Yukihiro Matsumoto wrote:

> Hi,
>
> In message "Re: xxx_init_copy"
>     on 04/02/02, Dave Thomas <dave@pragprog.com> writes:
>
> |Does that mean that there's no difference between dup and clone for
> |these classes?
>
> "clone" does
>
...

> "dup" does

...

Thanks, matz.

So I'm left wondering: nobu was talking about documenting dup and clone 
by documenting the corresponding init_copy method, but if dup and clone 
have different functionality, shouldn't they be documented separately?


Cheers

Dave


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