[#686] Wall compilation — Michal Rokos <michal@...>
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[#688] mkmf.rb - add files to clean and distclean targets — Michal Rokos <michal@...>
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[#708] Documentation for thread.rb — Gavin Sinclair <gsinclair@...>
Hi ruby-core,
[#719] nd_end and NODE_NEWLINE (fwd) — Chad Fowler <chad@...>
[#724] Symbols: More Functionality Wanted — Ryan Pavlik <rpav@...>
I've been discussing this for a bit on #ruby-lang on OPN (or freenode or
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On 20 Jan 2003 at 15:49, Yukihiro Matsumoto wrote:
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On Thursday, January 23, 2003, 6:28:04 AM, dblack wrote:
Gavin Sinclair <gsinclair@soyabean.com.au> writes:
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On Fri, 24 Jan 2003 03:34:46 +0900
[#730] Comments on matrix.rb — Gavin Sinclair <gsinclair@...>
Hi -core,
[#757] Extensions for Time and ParseDate — Ryan Davis <ryand-ruby@...>
Eric and I have been hacking around and we can't stand the lack of
[#759] Adding Test::Unit to CVS — "Nathaniel Talbott" <nathaniel@...>
Matz has already given me the go-ahead to add Test::Unit to CVS, but I
Nathaniel Talbott wrote:
On Wednesday, January 22, 2003, at 07:56 AM, Dave Thomas wrote:
Re: Symbols: More Functionality Wanted
Matt Armstrong wrote: > matz@ruby-lang.org (Yukihiro Matsumoto) writes: > > >>Hi, >> >>In message "Re: Symbols: More Functionality Wanted" >> on 03/01/24, Matt Armstrong <matt@lickey.com> writes: >> >>|> Binding#add doesn't sound right if the symbol you're binding already >>|> has a binding. >>| >>|The problem is that Binding is the wrong name for the class. A >>|variable binding associates a variable with a value, but the Binding >>|class represents a collection of bindings. E.g. this seems right: >>| >>| Binding.new(symbol, value) >> >>I consider "binding" as "a collection of bindings" in your term. >>For example, when we say "Emacs key binding", it means "a collection >>of key-function bindings very similar to one of Emacs". Am I wrong? > > > I think so. That sounds strange in English. It is like saying an > "object" is a "collection of objects." I think it's ok to use "binding" this way. Let's look at another word that has similar usage. The word "association" can be used in both the collective and individual sense: The association between the variable 'x' and its value 2. The association between the currently defined variables and their values. In the latter case it is clear (is it?) that we are not talking about an association between one set and another, but about an association between pairs. The words "binding" and "mapping" feel the same to me. This may be a question for grammarians, but it seems like the words "binding" and "association" both describe the result of a process (which may involve one or more things), whereas "object" does not, so the analogy is not apt. But I'm not a grammarian, so I could be just a confused native speaker....