[#74825] Millisecond in time. — place4oracle@... (Warren)

Hi,

17 messages 2003/07/01
[#74827] Re: Millisecond in time. — Harry Ohlsen <harryo@...> 2003/07/01

Warren wrote:

[#74841] Re: Millisecond in time. — Anders Borch <spam@...> 2003/07/01

Harry Ohlsen wrote:

[#74853] Aeditor-0.1 is unleashed — "Simon Strandgaard" <0bz63fz3m1qt3001@...>

Aeditor is a editor-widget written in Ruby. The primary

17 messages 2003/07/01

[#74884] Speaking of I18N... — "Hal E. Fulton" <hal9000@...>

I don't suppose anyone has implemented any

17 messages 2003/07/01

[#74894] rb_gc() and scan stack — "Simon Strandgaard" <0bz63fz3m1qt3001@...>

I were experimenting with Init_stack, when I discovered a flaw in my mind.

12 messages 2003/07/01

[#74912] Ruby9i now available — Jim Cain <list@...>

All,

18 messages 2003/07/02

[#74980] OT: It's that time of year again ... — james_b <james_b@...>

Happy Birthmonth to all fellow Rubyists born in July!

19 messages 2003/07/02

[#75023] A Quick Guide to SQLite and Ruby — why the lucky stiff <ruby-talk@...>

-Talkers:

17 messages 2003/07/02

[#75119] purpose of replace method — Ian Macdonald <ian@...>

Hi,

17 messages 2003/07/04

[#75137] How to create Shell Links on Windows? — Timon Christl <me@...>

Is there an easy way to create or modify shell links (.lnk) with ruby on

12 messages 2003/07/04

[#75160] seeking feedback on my first Ruby program — "Joe Cheng" <code@...>

I just took my first stab at writing a useful Ruby program. My programming

11 messages 2003/07/04

[#75307] Need regex to match "^\n" — Jim Freeze <jim@...>

Hi:

16 messages 2003/07/06

[#75369] Code Snippet: Array.shuffle — Stefan Arentz <stefan.arentz@...>

14 messages 2003/07/08

[#75420] My brief and torrid affair with Ruby. — Ray Cote <rgacote@...>

Hi List:

150 messages 2003/07/08
[#75421] Re: My brief and torrid affair with Ruby. — Daniel Carrera <dcarrera@...> 2003/07/09

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[#75425] Re: My brief and torrid affair with Ruby. — Ray Cote <rgacote@...> 2003/07/09

At 9:08 AM +0900 7/9/03, Daniel Carrera wrote:

[#75426] Re: My brief and torrid affair with Ruby. — Daniel Carrera <dcarrera@...> 2003/07/09

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[#75433] Re: My brief and torrid affair with Ruby. — Stephyn Butcher <tendzin.dorje@...> 2003/07/09

They don't call GPL a legal virus for nothing:

[#75527] Re: My brief and torrid affair with Ruby. — "Hal E. Fulton" <hal9000@...> 2003/07/09

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[#75529] Re: My brief and torrid affair with Ruby. — Daniel Carrera <dcarrera@...> 2003/07/09

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[#75536] Re: My brief and torrid affair with Ruby. — "Hal E. Fulton" <hal9000@...> 2003/07/09

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[#75548] OT: GPL - was Re: My brief and torrid affair with Ruby. — "Hal E. Fulton" <hal9000@...> 2003/07/09

> > Are you honestly saying that you don't understand

[#75565] Re: OT: GPL - was Re: My brief and torrid affair with Ruby. — Chalmers <feldt@...> 2003/07/09

Sorry for this long post and rambling. Just skip if you're not in

[#75588] Re: OT: GPL - was Re: My brief and torrid affair with Ruby. — Austin Ziegler <austin@...> 2003/07/10

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[#75610] Re: OT: GPL - was Re: My brief and torrid affair with Ruby. — Robert Feldt <feldt@...> 2003/07/10

Austin Ziegler <austin@halostatue.ca> skrev den Thu, 10 Jul 2003 10:10:03

[#75530] Re: My brief and torrid affair with Ruby. — "Michael Campbell" <michael_s_campbell@...> 2003/07/09

[#75531] Re: My brief and torrid affair with Ruby. — Daniel Carrera <dcarrera@...> 2003/07/09

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[#75711] Re: My brief and torrid affair with Ruby. — "Sean O'Dell" <sean@...> 2003/07/11

"Daniel Carrera" <dcarrera@math.umd.edu> wrote in message

[#75712] Re: My brief and torrid affair with Ruby. — Daniel Carrera <dcarrera@...> 2003/07/11

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[#75539] Re: My brief and torrid affair with Ruby. — "Gennady" <gfb@...> 2003/07/09

OK, Daniel, let's put it this way: if you do not use something there's

[#75438] NASA using Ruby? — Harry Ohlsen <harryo@...>

I noticed a reference in the intro blurb for Dave Thomas's talk at OSCON to NASA doing numerical simulations using Ruby.

24 messages 2003/07/09

[#75570] Ruby T-Shirt Idea — shout@... (Austin King)

Keywords: advocacy, silly t-shirts, Request For Feedback

43 messages 2003/07/09

[#75654] Re: Ruby T-Shirt Idea — "Orion Hunter" <orion2480@...>

What we need is a code snippet that is excessively long and obfuscate in

31 messages 2003/07/10

[#75767] Getting my IP address — Philip Mak <pmak@...>

Is there a piece of Ruby code somewhere that will tell me what my IP

13 messages 2003/07/11

[#75777] Re: OSCON report — "Volkmann, Mark" <Mark.Volkmann@...>

> -----Original Message-----

19 messages 2003/07/11
[#75810] Re: OSCON report — matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto) 2003/07/11

Hi,

[#75811] Re: OSCON report — Matt Lawrence <matt@...> 2003/07/11

On Sat, 12 Jul 2003, Yukihiro Matsumoto wrote:

[#75852] ruby-mysql library load error — eric.anderson@... (Eric Anderson)

I am trying to get the ruby dbi library up and running on my machine.

10 messages 2003/07/12

[#75963] Custom method_missing doesn't trap super call — Richard Dale <Richard_Dale@...>

When I run the code below it produces the following output:

26 messages 2003/07/14

[#75975] Booleans — "Mark J. Reed" <markjreed@...>

Okay, as a convert from Perl to Ruby, I have to say that I love

14 messages 2003/07/14

[#75991] ruby-specific CGI question (I think) — "Kurt M. Dresner" <kdresner@...>

I'm using sessions and forms in my cgi script.

15 messages 2003/07/14

[#76058] How to reduce Ruby runtime error? — Xiangrong Fang <xrfang@...>

Hi my friends,

17 messages 2003/07/15

[#76121] Keyword "with" — "Robert Klemme" <bob.news@...>

66 messages 2003/07/16
[#76134] Re: Keyword "with" — "Robert Klemme" <bob.news@...> 2003/07/16

[#76143] Re: Keyword "with" — Peter Hickman <peter@...> 2003/07/16

Robert Klemme wrote:

[#76148] Other languages' features in Ruby — Ben Giddings <ben@...> 2003/07/16

Hrm, well I'm a Ruby/Java/C/C++/Python/Perl/Lisp/Javascript/PHP...

[#76149] Re: Keyword "with" — "Mark J. Reed" <markjreed@...> 2003/07/16

Peter (having a bad day) Hickman wrote:

[#76181] Re: Keyword "with" — Mark Wilson <mwilson13@...> 2003/07/16

[#76184] Re: Keyword "with" — "Michael Campbell" <michael_s_campbell@...> 2003/07/16

[#76293] Re: Keyword "with" — "Hal E. Fulton" <hal9000@...> 2003/07/17

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[#76145] Advocacy: Ruby on/with .net — "Thomas Sondergaard" <thomass@...>

I'd like a minute or two of your time as I try to sell you the idea of ruby

34 messages 2003/07/16

[#76196] OO Design question for Net::HTTP caching extension — Aredridel <aredridel@...>

I'm in the process of writing an HTTP-1.1 extension to Net::HTTP. At

10 messages 2003/07/16

[#76254] What's the point? — Jim Freeze <jim@...>

Hi

19 messages 2003/07/17

[#76336] Aliased setter methods behave differently than other methods? — Jim Cain <list@...>

Here's another question... I am aliasing and redefining certain methods,

11 messages 2003/07/18

[#76372] Binary counter — ptkwt@...1.aracnet.com (Phil Tomson)

I needed to test a class which had a certain number of 'binary' inputs (ie. each input

14 messages 2003/07/18

[#76396] chaining comparisons — "Kurt M. Dresner" <kdresner@...>

When I learned python I was overjoyed that I could evaluate 1 < 2 < 3

36 messages 2003/07/19

[#76424] Proposal: Array#to_h, to simplify hash generation — Gavin Sinclair <gsinclair@...>

Hi -talk,

41 messages 2003/07/19
[#76512] Re: Proposal: Array#to_h, to simplify hash generation — Martin DeMello <martindemello@...> 2003/07/20

Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@ruby-lang.org> wrote:

[#76513] Re: Proposal: Array#to_h, to simplify hash generation — dblack@... 2003/07/20

Hi --

[#76530] Re: Proposal: Array#to_h, to simplify hash generation — Martin DeMello <martindemello@...> 2003/07/21

dblack@superlink.net wrote:

[#76532] Re: Proposal: Array#to_h, to simplify hash generation — "Gavin Sinclair" <gsinclair@...> 2003/07/21

>

[#76540] Re: Proposal: Array#to_h, to simplify hash generation — dblack@... 2003/07/21

Hi --

[#76473] ruby documentation generator? — "Kurt M. Dresner" <kdresner@...>

I've been googling for a few minutes but I haven't found anything yet.

12 messages 2003/07/20

[#76497] Parsing POST and GET variables simultaneously? — David Heinemeier Hansson <david@...>

Isn't it possible to get variables from POST and GET simultaneously?

13 messages 2003/07/20

[#76499] From Windows internal format to UTF-8? — "renoX" <renZYX@...>

Hello,

13 messages 2003/07/20

[#76551] matz thoughts on Rite ? — "Simon Strandgaard" <0bz63fz3m1qt3001@...>

I don't know much about Rite, therefore I ask.

30 messages 2003/07/21

[#76563] Deep copy — Jim Freeze <jim@...>

Hi

15 messages 2003/07/21

[#76619] Should String#strip take a parameter? — "Warren Brown" <wkb@...>

All,

18 messages 2003/07/21

[#76625] RubyForge.org — Richard Kilmer <rich@...>

All,

37 messages 2003/07/22
[#76831] Re: [ANN] RubyForge.org — "Simon Strandgaard" <0bz63fz3m1qt3001@...> 2003/07/23

On Tue, 22 Jul 2003 12:43:41 +0200, Oliver Bolzer wrote:

[#76693] Bug report: ruby-1.8.0p3 fails to compile under FreeBSD-4.7 — Brian Candler <B.Candler@...>

gcc -fPIC -g -O2 -DDB_DBM_HSEARCH -DDBM_HDR="<db.h>" -I. -I/u/home/telinco/build/ruby/ruby-1.8.0 -I/u/home/telinco/build/ruby/ruby-1.8.0 -I/u/home/telinco/build/ruby/ruby-1.8.0/ext/dbm -DHAVE_DB_H -DHAVE_SYS_CDEFS_H -DHAVE___DB_NDBM_OPEN -DHAVE___DB_NDBM_CLEARERR -c dbm.c

10 messages 2003/07/22

[#76697] String substitution without RegEx — Andreas Schwarz <usenet@...>

I wanted to do a simple string substitution, and was surprised to see

20 messages 2003/07/22

[#76751] New RDoc template, and a question — Dave Thomas <dave@...>

Michael Granger has produced a wonderful new RDoc template, which looks

37 messages 2003/07/23

[#76783] Embedding problem - SEGV — Brian Candler <B.Candler@...>

I have a problem with embedding Ruby, which hopefully someone can shed some

16 messages 2003/07/23

[#76843] Re: [OT] subversion, was [ANN] RubyForge.org — "Bennett, Patrick" <Patrick.Bennett@...>

Hmm, the linuxworld article didn't really say anything useful about

12 messages 2003/07/23

[#76892] ruby 1.8.0 preview4 — matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)

Hello,

44 messages 2003/07/24

[#76984] Patches to 1.8.0p4 to add Bessel functions for those that have 'em — Mike Hall <mghall@...>

Here's some simple patches to configure.in, configure and math.c

23 messages 2003/07/25
[#77006] Re: Patches to 1.8.0p4 to add Bessel functions for those that have 'em — matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto) 2003/07/25

Hi,

[#76991] Confused about locking a file via file.flock(File::LOCK_EX) — Ludwigi Beethoven <aix_tech@...>

I am writing a ruby appl under AIX where I need to

11 messages 2003/07/25

[#77082] Set doesn't have [] instance method — Gavin Sinclair <gsinclair@...>

It should, shouldn't it? It's meant to combine the fast lookup of

15 messages 2003/07/26

[#77087] What's wrong with ruby garden? — "Carl Youngblood" <carl@...>

It seems that Ruby Garden is down right now. Does anyone know what's

10 messages 2003/07/26

[#77129] Ruby in Ruby — Austin Ziegler <austin@...>

Over on the pragprog list, Ron Jeffries suggested that it might be

15 messages 2003/07/28

[#77144] ruby 1.8.0 preview5 — matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)

Hello,

16 messages 2003/07/28

[#77149] winsock problem? — Xiangrong Fang <xrfang@...>

Hi,

14 messages 2003/07/28

[#77176] Fishing for ideas: Ruby-talk for Java coders — Armin Roehrl <armin@...>

Hi all,

19 messages 2003/07/28

[#77197] Parser generator — "Rodrigo B. de Oliveira" <rodrigob@...>

I'm evaluating language/frameworks for creating a toy language compiler and I'd love to use ruby. Unfortunately I couldn't find a mature parser generator for ruby (automatic AST generation is a plus). Advices?

13 messages 2003/07/29

[#77227] Warnings? — Tim Bates <tim@...>

Hi all,

15 messages 2003/07/29
[#77242] Re: Warnings? — matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto) 2003/07/29

Hi,

[#77354] Ruby could be wildly more popular if it had ... — quixoticsycophant@... (Jeff Mitchell)

Brackets.

40 messages 2003/07/30
[#77694] Re: Ruby could be wildly more popular if it had ... — Martin DeMello <martindemello@...> 2003/08/01

Chris Thomas <chris@m-audio.com> wrote:

[#77359] Hm... nice, Euclid is a one-liner — Rudolf Polzer <denshimeiru-sapmctacher@...>

a, b = b, a % b while b != 0

12 messages 2003/07/30

[#77408] Bignum multiplication — Harry Ohlsen <harryo@...>

I was just reading about Python 2.3 and they talked about how they've changed their arbitrary-precision integer multiplication to use the Karatsuba multiplication algorithm.

21 messages 2003/07/30

[#77516] wanted: official mirrors for 1.8.0 — matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)

Hello,

24 messages 2003/07/31

[#77528] ruby 1.8.0 preview6 — matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)

Hello,

14 messages 2003/07/31

[#77590] Spam at ruby-talk — Daniel Carrera <dcarrera@...>

I don't know who runs the ruby-talk mailing list. I've noticed that

13 messages 2003/07/31
[#77595] Re: Spam at ruby-talk — Dave Thomas <dave@...> 2003/07/31

Daniel Carrera wrote:

[#77592] Changing ==,>,<, etc — elbows@... (Nathan Weston)

The latest Perl exegesis

15 messages 2003/07/31

[#77623] Extracting a parent class — Michael Garriss <mgarriss@...>

Sorry about the newbie question but....

14 messages 2003/07/31

Re: Keyword "with"

From: Mark Wilson <mwilson13@...>
Date: 2003-07-16 18:24:20 UTC
List: ruby-talk #76181
On Wednesday, July 16, 2003, at 10:28 AM, Mark J. Reed wrote:

> Peter (having a bad day) Hickman wrote:
>> [snip]

>> The call for pre/post increment/decrement operators is pretty 
>> frequent.
>
> Well, that's because they're useful. :)  I mean, sure, x += 1
> works everywhere that ++x would, but if what you really want is
> x++ then you have to break it up into two statements.  [snip]

The x++ operator has been discussed extensively on this list on a 
number of occasions. The likelihood of it ever being added to Ruby is 
almost infintesimally close to zero. The fundamental reason, I think, 
is that a Fixnum object (upon which such an operator would operate) 
should never be mutable. The x+=1 operator emphasizes that a new Fixnum 
object is being assigned to the applicable variable.

> [snip]

>> We've had Java/C++/Whatever programmers ask for type checking, 
>> operator
>> overloading, polymorphism and a whole host of compile time checking.
>
> That would be a more fundamental change, obviously; Ruby is just not a
> strongly-typed language.  [snip]

There has been a lot of discussion on the list about this. Not 
surprisingly, Dave Thomas' contributions to the "type" discussions are 
extremely lucid and helpful. Ruby is strongly-typed. It is, however, 
dynamically typed and one does not declare types for variables (except 
deliberately and after creating code to implement variable type 
declaration). To the developer, Ruby is "duck-typed" -- objects are 
defined by the method calls they respond to.

>
> Now, as an O-O language Ruby automatically supports some forms
> of polymorphism.  And I do think it would occasionally result in
> clearer code if we could define multiple methods with the same name
> distinguished by number of arguments, rather than manually checking
> and dispatching within a single method, but that's a minor quibble.
> [snip]
Not to get into a paean to Dave Thomas, but a powerful way of 
approaching this kind of problem area is to define a private initialize 
method for a class and then create many methods with different names 
that call the initialize method to create different but related 
objects. There are some excellent discussions of this in the mailing 
list archives.

>> We've had programmers who wanted 'initialize' changed to 'new' so that
>> they would have less to type.
>
> Again, I'm all for concision (even though I know that it's not
> a real word), wherever it doesn't impede clarity.  In this case
> it would even enhance it - you call MyClass.new and that results
> in MyClass#new being executed.  Not only less typing, but also
> a more logical connection, easier to remember, and no conflicts
> since class methods and instance methods have separate namespaces.
> Sorry, why is this a bad idea again? :)
>
>> [snip]

I have never felt the desire to want to change def initialize to def 
new. For whatever reason, I have always felt comfortable with using the 
word initialize in the "model" part of the design and the word "new" in 
the controller part of the design.

Regards,

Mark


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