[#86984] Attempted roadmap of future instance variables.... — "David A. Black" <dblack@...>

Hi --

81 messages 2003/12/02
[#86998] Re: Attempted roadmap of future instance variables.... — Steve Tuckner <STUCKNER@...> 2003/12/02

So what is the relationship between @_ vars and @vars that are defined in a

[#87001] Re: Attempted roadmap of future instance variables.... — "David A. Black" <dblack@...> 2003/12/02

Hi --

[#87006] Re: Attempted roadmap of future instance variables.... — Steve Tuckner <STUCKNER@...> 2003/12/02

Maybe I am being dense, so bear with me...

[#87011] Re: Attempted roadmap of future instance variables.... — Lyle Johnson <lyle@...> 2003/12/02

Steve Tuckner wrote:

[#87013] Re: Attempted roadmap of future instance variables.... — Steve Tuckner <STUCKNER@...> 2003/12/02

OK so the jist of it is that @_var variables are stored with the class of

[#87095] Re: Attempted roadmap of future instance variables.... — "Robert Klemme" <bob.news@...> 2003/12/03

[#87098] Re: Attempted roadmap of future instance variables.... — "David A. Black" <dblack@...> 2003/12/03

Hi --

[#87102] Re: Attempted roadmap of future instance variables.... — ts <decoux@...> 2003/12/03

>>>>> "D" == David A Black <[email protected]> writes:

[#87244] Re: Attempted roadmap of future instance variables.... — "Christoph" <chr_mail@...> 2003/12/05

ts wrote:

[#87275] Re: Attempted roadmap of future instance variables.... — ts <decoux@...> 2003/12/05

>>>>> "C" == Christoph <[email protected]> writes:

[#87286] Re: Attempted roadmap of future instance variables.... — "Christoph" <chr_mail@...> 2003/12/05

ts wrote:

[#87290] Re: Attempted roadmap of future instance variables.... — "David A. Black" <dblack@...> 2003/12/05

Hi --

[#87308] Re: Attempted roadmap of future instance variables.... — Austin Ziegler <austin@...> 2003/12/05

On Fri, 5 Dec 2003 22:56:41 +0900, David A. Black wrote:

[#87310] Re: Attempted roadmap of future instance variables.... — "Christoph" <chr_mail@...> 2003/12/05

Austin Ziegler wrote:

[#87320] Re: Attempted roadmap of future instance variables.... — Austin Ziegler <austin@...> 2003/12/05

On Sat, 6 Dec 2003 01:40:42 +0900, Christoph wrote:

[#87322] Re: Attempted roadmap of future instance variables.... — "T. Onoma" <transami@...> 2003/12/05

On Friday 05 December 2003 06:41 pm, Austin Ziegler wrote:

[#87314] Re: Attempted roadmap of future instance variables.... — "T. Onoma" <transami@...> 2003/12/05

On Friday 05 December 2003 05:40 pm, Christoph wrote:

[#87318] Re: Attempted roadmap of future instance variables.... — matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto) 2003/12/05

Hi,

[#87335] Re: Attempted roadmap of future instance variables.... — Nathaniel Talbott <nathaniel@...> 2003/12/05

On Dec 5, 2003, at 12:15, Yukihiro Matsumoto wrote:

[#87031] ruby 1.8 in the freebsd ports tree — culley harrelson <culley@...>

Does anyone have ruby 1.8 + libraries working from the freebsd ports

10 messages 2003/12/02

[#87066] What's the best way to create methods dealing with an object of a certain class? — Leif K-Brooks <eurleif@...>

I want to add a method to be run on Strings. Currently, I'm just adding

14 messages 2003/12/03
[#87072] Re: What's the best way to create methods dealing with an object of a certain class? — Lyle Johnson <lyle@...> 2003/12/03

Leif K-Brooks wrote:

[#87083] Some Regexp — orlovdn@... (Dmitry N Orlov)

I want to get array from file like this:

20 messages 2003/12/03

[#87203] sorting — vanjac12@... (Van Jacques)

I'm not sure where to post about this problem, so

18 messages 2003/12/04

[#87233] Generalized break? — Hal Fulton <hal9000@...>

I hate to bring up possible language changes, since there is

14 messages 2003/12/04

[#87255] WeakRef and Object#hash — Samuel Tesla <samuel@...>

I'm trying to implement a weak key hash to use for generic objects.

37 messages 2003/12/05
[#87259] Dumb question to which I ought to know the answer by now — "Mark J. Reed" <markjreed@...> 2003/12/05

Is there an assignment version of Hash#values_at, so I can assign

[#87266] Re: Dumb question to which I ought to know the answer by now — Austin Ziegler <austin@...> 2003/12/05

On Fri, 5 Dec 2003 12:42:05 +0900, Mark J. Reed wrote:

[#87333] Re: Attempted roadmap of future instance variables.... — "Weirich, James" <James.Weirich@...>

From: David A. Black [mailto:[email protected]]

18 messages 2003/12/05
[#87337] Re: Attempted roadmap of future instance variables.... — Chris Thomas <chris@...> 2003/12/05

[#87402] Re: Attempted roadmap of future instance variables.... — matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto) 2003/12/06

Hi,

[#87382] Idea: Linux PIM in Ruby — Hal Fulton <hal9000@...>

On my wishlist of top 20 things I'd like to do: A PIM for Linux.

30 messages 2003/12/06
[#87407] Re: Idea: Linux PIM in Ruby — Lyle Johnson <lyle@...> 2003/12/06

Hal Fulton wrote:

[#87409] rbbr-0.5.0 — Masao Mutoh <mutoh@...>

Hi,

18 messages 2003/12/06

[#87430] Ideas for replacing $0==__FILE__ — Hal Fulton <hal9000@...>

I've accepted now that my "generalized break" was a bad idea. In

26 messages 2003/12/06
[#87720] Re: Ideas for replacing $0==__FILE__ — Eric Hodel <[email protected]> 2003/12/10

Hal Fulton ([email protected]) wrote:

[#87723] Re: Ideas for replacing $0==__FILE__ — Hal Fulton <hal9000@...> 2003/12/10

Eric Hodel wrote:

[#87726] Re: Ideas for replacing $0==__FILE__ — Eric Hodel <[email protected]> 2003/12/10

Hal Fulton ([email protected]) wrote:

[#87459] Trying to create a Ruby daemon — Samuel Kvarnbrink <samuel.kvarnbrink@...>

Hi,

11 messages 2003/12/07

[#87553] format money — saggmannen@... (saggmannen)

Hello, is there a way to format "Money"-style floats in ruby. E.g:

25 messages 2003/12/08

[#87587] Adjusting the Scope of Blocks — Mark Cox <mark_cox@...>

Hi,

22 messages 2003/12/09
[#87606] Re: Adjusting the Scope of Blocks — "Robert Klemme" <bob.news@...> 2003/12/09

[#87620] Re: Adjusting the Scope of Blocks — "David A. Black" <dblack@...> 2003/12/09

Hi --

[#87626] ANN: REXML 2.7.2 — ser@... (Sean Russell)

Hi,

18 messages 2003/12/09

[#87638] Inheriting variables, super, and "not super"? — Hugh Sasse Staff Elec Eng <hgs@...>

Is there a way in a method to say

11 messages 2003/12/09

[#87706] Docs for Socket, OpenSSL, etc — "James F. Hranicky" <jfh@...>

Are there any plans to add docs for modules like Socket and OpenSSL, etc to

23 messages 2003/12/10
[#87766] Re: Docs for Socket, OpenSSL, etc — Simon Strandgaard <neoneye@...> 2003/12/11

On Wed, 10 Dec 2003 23:20:21 +0900, James F. Hranicky wrote:

[#87769] Re: Docs for Socket, OpenSSL, etc — "James F. Hranicky" <jfh@...> 2003/12/11

On Thu, 11 Dec 2003 20:57:00 +0900

[#87780] Re: Docs for Socket, OpenSSL, etc — Dave Thomas <dave@...> 2003/12/11

[#87781] Re: Docs for Socket, OpenSSL, etc — "James F. Hranicky" <jfh@...> 2003/12/11

On Fri, 12 Dec 2003 00:07:28 +0900

[#87775] prog for g.c.d. of 2 integers — vanjac12@... (Van Jacques)

Topics from mathematics make good practice programs, IMO.

13 messages 2003/12/11

[#87783] problems with racc: $end token — "Luke A. Kanies" <luke@...>

Hello,

14 messages 2003/12/11
[#87789] Re: problems with racc: $end token — Jim Freeze <jim@...> 2003/12/11

On Friday, 12 December 2003 at 0:42:30 +0900, Luke A. Kanies wrote:

[#87819] Ruby-Talk Subject Matters — "T. Onoma" <transami@...>

Out of curiosity, how do others feel about "suggestive" threads? Do you feel

15 messages 2003/12/11

[#87856] Simple issue giving problems — Brad <coish@...>

Hello all,

17 messages 2003/12/11

[#88031] inplace assignment — "T. Onoma" <transami@...>

is there anyway, anyway at all, ugly hacks accepted, of doing inplace

40 messages 2003/12/14
[#88032] Re: inplace assignment — Hal Fulton <hal9000@...> 2003/12/14

T. Onoma wrote:

[#88034] Re: inplace assignment — "T. Onoma" <transami@...> 2003/12/14

On Sunday 14 December 2003 05:51 am, Hal Fulton wrote:

[#88037] Re: inplace assignment — Hal Fulton <hal9000@...> 2003/12/14

T. Onoma wrote:

[#88041] Re: inplace assignment — "T. Onoma" <transami@...> 2003/12/14

On Sunday 14 December 2003 07:49 am, Hal Fulton wrote:

[#88056] Re: inplace assignment — "David A. Black" <dblack@...> 2003/12/14

On Sun, 14 Dec 2003, T. Onoma wrote:

[#88059] Re: inplace assignment — "T. Onoma" <transami@...> 2003/12/14

On Sunday 14 December 2003 03:59 pm, David A. Black wrote:

[#88064] Re: inplace assignment — "David A. Black" <dblack@...> 2003/12/14

On Mon, 15 Dec 2003, T. Onoma wrote:

[#88077] All there is to know about Duck Typing (was: inplace assignment) — "T. Onoma" <transami@...> 2003/12/14

Alright, a number of things related to Duck Tpying have been popping up and I

[#88081] Re: All there is to know about Duck Typing (was: inplace assignment) — "David Naseby" <david.naseby@...> 2003/12/14

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

[#88147] extremely strange segfault — "Luke A. Kanies" <luke@...>

Hi all,

14 messages 2003/12/15

[#88150] UnboundMethods Useless? — "T. Onoma" <transami@...>

Urrrr.....

34 messages 2003/12/15
[#88239] Re: UnboundMethods Useless? — Dan Doel <djd15@...> 2003/12/16

You can do stuff like this:

[#88309] Re: UnboundMethods Useless? — "T. Onoma" <transami@...> 2003/12/17

On Tuesday 16 December 2003 08:54 pm, Dan Doel wrote:

[#88322] Re: UnboundMethods Useless? — Chad Fowler <chad@...> 2003/12/17

On Wed, 17 Dec 2003, T. Onoma wrote:

[#88323] Re: UnboundMethods Useless? — ts <decoux@...> 2003/12/17

>>>>> "C" == Chad Fowler <[email protected]> writes:

[#88327] Re: UnboundMethods Useless? — "T. Onoma" <transami@...> 2003/12/17

On Wednesday 17 December 2003 01:21 pm, ts wrote:

[#88328] Re: UnboundMethods Useless? — ts <decoux@...> 2003/12/17

>>>>> "T" == T Onoma <[email protected]> writes:

[#88332] Re: UnboundMethods Useless? — "T. Onoma" <transami@...> 2003/12/17

On Wednesday 17 December 2003 01:59 pm, ts wrote:

[#88333] Re: UnboundMethods Useless? — "David A. Black" <dblack@...> 2003/12/17

On Wed, 17 Dec 2003, T. Onoma wrote:

[#88336] Re: UnboundMethods Useless? — Peter <Peter.Vanbroekhoven@...> 2003/12/17

> I don't know what you mean by (ir)reversible, but the point is that

[#88337] Re: UnboundMethods Useless? — ts <decoux@...> 2003/12/17

>>>>> "P" == Peter <[email protected]> writes:

[#88159] Re: Extracting multiple lines from a file — "Berger, Daniel" <djberge@...>

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

18 messages 2003/12/15
[#88161] Re: Extracting multiple lines from a file — "Ron Coutts" <rcoutts@...> 2003/12/15

[#88166] Re: Extracting multiple lines from a file — "Mark J. Reed" <markjreed@...> 2003/12/15

On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 07:16:23AM +0900, Ron Coutts wrote:

[#88199] Re: Extracting multiple lines from a file — Derek Lewis <[email protected]> 2003/12/16

On Tue, 16 Dec 2003, Mark J. Reed wrote:

[#88172] Copying methods from one class to another — "T. Onoma" <transami@...>

Is there any way to copy a method from one class to another?

22 messages 2003/12/16
[#88174] Re: Copying methods from one class to another — Jamis Buck <jgb3@...> 2003/12/16

T. Onoma wrote:

[#88183] Re: Copying methods from one class to another — "T. Onoma" <transami@...> 2003/12/16

On Tuesday 16 December 2003 05:23 am, Jamis Buck wrote:

[#88189] Re: Copying methods from one class to another — "David A. Black" <dblack@...> 2003/12/16

On Tue, 16 Dec 2003, T. Onoma wrote:

[#88191] Re: Copying methods from one class to another — "T. Onoma" <transami@...> 2003/12/16

On Tuesday 16 December 2003 02:51 pm, David A. Black wrote:

[#88195] Re: Copying methods from one class to another — Hacksaw <hacksaw@...> 2003/12/16

Sorry to step into the middle of a conversation, but what does this mean:

[#88211] Newbie questions — jfrapper@... (Jim Frapper)

I was wondering what the equivalent tools were to perldoc(ri is not)

44 messages 2003/12/16
[#88259] Re: Newbie questions — Chad Fowler <chad@...> 2003/12/16

On Wed, 17 Dec 2003, Jim Frapper wrote:

[#88266] Re: Newbie questions — Gavin Sinclair <gsinclair@...> 2003/12/16

On Wednesday, December 17, 2003, 8:10:19 AM, Chad wrote:

[#88270] Re: Newbie questions — Daniel Carrera <dcarrera@...> 2003/12/16

>

[#88271] Re: Newbie questions — "Luke A. Kanies" <luke@...> 2003/12/16

On Wed, 17 Dec 2003, Daniel Carrera wrote:

[#88272] Re: Newbie questions — Daniel Carrera <dcarrera@...> 2003/12/16

On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 07:07:45AM +0900, Luke A. Kanies wrote:

[#88280] Re: Newbie questions — "Luke A. Kanies" <luke@...> 2003/12/16

On Wed, 17 Dec 2003, Daniel Carrera wrote:

[#88370] Re: Newbie questions — Derek Lewis <[email protected]> 2003/12/17

[#88220] Re: Newbie questions — "Berger, Daniel" <djberge@...>

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

31 messages 2003/12/16
[#88224] Re: Newbie questions — Hal Fulton <hal9000@...> 2003/12/16

Berger, Daniel wrote:

[#88227] Re: Newbie questions — Thomas Adam <thomas_adam16@...> 2003/12/16

--- Hal Fulton <[email protected]> wrote:

[#88228] Re: Newbie questions — Hal Fulton <hal9000@...> 2003/12/16

Thomas Adam wrote:

[#88289] Very odd IO problem — Brad <coish@...>

All:

18 messages 2003/12/17

[#88414] Yukihiro - Please ensure backwards compatibility — jobeicus@... (Joseph Benik)

having recently migrated one of my machines from a 1.6 flavor to the

14 messages 2003/12/18

[#88494] How to return more than one result from a method? — Tim Hunter <cyclists@...>

I'm trying to code a method that has two result values. The values are

14 messages 2003/12/19

[#88581] replacing two EOL chars by one — xah@... (Xah Lee)

i have a bunch of java files that has spaced-out formatting that i

23 messages 2003/12/20

[#88643] Ruby 1.8.1 preview4 — matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)

Hi,

32 messages 2003/12/22

[#88731] RubyGems and dependencies — sera@... (Francis Hwang)

Two RubyGems questions about dependencies:

16 messages 2003/12/23

[#88781] TkText freezes — quillion <me@...>

Hello all,

21 messages 2003/12/24

[#88814] ruby 1.8.1 — matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)

Merry Christmas,

25 messages 2003/12/24

[#88936] Inconsistent value of uninitialized variable — Gavin Sinclair <gsinclair@...>

The following statement, free of all context, generates an error:

10 messages 2003/12/28

[#88954] An addition to Array (or Enumerable)? — Harry Ohlsen <harryo@...>

Yesterday, I wanted to get the output from "ls -l some_file" and pull out just the file size and the file name. As I start writing this, I realise, of course, that I'd have been better off just using the File#size method, but I still think the issue I hit is interesting.

12 messages 2003/12/28

[#89015] ruby-dev summary 22273-22434 — "Takaaki Tateishi" <ttate@...>

Hello,

16 messages 2003/12/30
[#89016] Re: ruby-dev summary 22273-22434 — Austin Ziegler <austin@...> 2003/12/30

On Wed, 31 Dec 2003 00:45:11 +0900, Takaaki Tateishi wrote:

[FYI: historic] The desicive moment of the language name Ruby. (Re: [ANN] ruby 1.8.1)

From: maili31s@... (SugHimsi==SUGIHARA Hiroshi)
Date: 2003-12-24 21:48:31 UTC
List: ruby-talk #88819
Thank you matz.

To celebrate this release and a decennial language, I would release a
translation of a historic record; what is the root of the name "Ruby."
If it would be your fun, I should be very happy.

Merry Christmas,

-- 
SugHimsi == SUGIHARA Hiroshi
 'Le style est l'homme m^eme.' (Buffon, 1753)

Subject: [ruby-dev:5173] Re: to_i, to_s Simple question
From: [email protected] (Keiju Ishitsuka)


Extra: The desicive moment of the language name.                   [0]

                               [0] This is a footnote (except [0] ;-).

# Talking on the chat.                                             [1]
# Forgive me Matz, this is without your permission. (__;;;         [2]

        : 

keiju> By the way, do you have considered the name of the language?  
matz> The subsidiary in Hitachi had struck the advertisement       [3]
matz> Well, Tish, if it's like shell enough.
matz> But I want a smarter name.
keiju> Toilet paper?  
matz> That's Tissue
keiju> What does it mean?  
matz> implies nothing
matz> Such a word cannot be found.
keiju> Can I interpret it? Something elliptical?  
matz> No, absolutely no meaning.  Nuance is its all
keiju> It's... 
matz> A meaning is made suitably later.
keiju> possible trick though.  
matz> And, considered for a language name which is designed
      a bit ago to shelve, is Pit
matz> "Hole"
keiju> What's the heck?  
matz> erm, when considered it was some abbreviation, but...
matz> forgotten
keiju> ruby 
keiju> a jewelry name after all 
matz> put it alongside kanji?
matz> why jewel's name?
matz> the influence of Mitsubishi?                                 [4]
keiju> perl 
matz> I see
matz> So why not rubie?  it should                                 [5]
keiju> But, perl is related to a shell.  
matz> Oh, I don't know that
matz> never noticed that
keiju> Possibly the arrival of thorough thought... 
matz> hmmm
keiju> What kind of shellfish can make pearl?  
matz> Any kind is OK
keiju> really?  
keiju> Is it such a thing?  
matz> just with AKOYAGAI is beautiful
keiju> that's it.  
keiju> in English.  
matz> with oyster can make it also
keiju> what's it? 
matz> in Japanese, KAKI
matz> AKOYAGAI is said pearl oyster. useless
keiju> well then oyster 
matz> ruby is better.
matz> I have seen coral somewhere
matz> SANGO
keiju> somewhat i have heard it.  
matz> i remember there's a soft such as coral draw
keiju> bisque is it 
keiju> Nuance of coral is good. 
matz> bisque is cool, but sounds bad
matz> Coral, it may likely be anywhere
keiju> sure it is... 
keiju> something in OS?  
matz> Was it so?  Although it sounds neat
keiju> Can you look at the yellow book?                            [6]
matz> there's Chorus and Clouds
keiju> How quick 
matz> nothing also in the Nikkei book                              [7]
keiju> hmm.  
keiju> then suppose there's not and decide to it?  
matz> Is it no need to look over besides OS?
keiju> Especially a language ... 
matz> language --
keiju> and company name 
keiju> trademark 
matz> Isn't it OK just only to ask an editor?                      [8]
keiju> whether it's there or not.  
matz> Let us decide the codename now
matz> tentative one.
keiju> Ok.  
matz> What is your best up to now?
keiju> I'm content with coral.  
matz> I thought ruby is cool as a codename, isn't it
keiju> Well. ruby is also good.  
matz> But, coral is also good
matz> arrr

Soon after the chat (a mail from Mr. Matsumoto):

  >> >\item codename is ruby or coral*
  > coral has worse impression than perl (perhaps) so quit it.
  >I remember ruby is my birth stone...                            [9]

  Well, then Ruby.

Hence the name Ruby (^^;;;


            [1] At 24 Feb. 1993, in a private chat room.
                This time Matz and Keiju are about 200 km far apart.
                (And the chat is, of course, in Japanese. ;-)
                See also [8].
            [2] This translation itself is on the kind courtesy of
                the conversators' (Matz & Keiju's) permission.
                The workor (SugHimsi) sincerely thanks to them.
            [3] Another story; no concern with the rest.
            [4] Mitsubishi's trademark consists of three diamonds.
            [5] Remember Perl is not straightly 'Pearl'.
            [6] A commentary or a catalog of operating systems.
                I couldn't determine the book.
            [7] Ditto.
            [8] They were making arrangements of their joint work
                on object oriented programming book, which at last
                wasn't published.
                The work had a theme to develop a sample programming
                language (of course object oriented one).
            [9] Keiju speaking.


Acknowledgement: see [2].
                                                That's all, thank you.


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