Does exist something like Method.info?

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Hi gurus,

I was playing a little with socket stuff, and trying to learn what
"sysaccept" is.

So, I closed irb, and launched
$ri socket.syaccept

doh! ri knows nothing about sockets!

At the first time I thought: Well, I can live without that

But after that I thought: could’nt exist some way to get info about a
method in irb from the Object itself?

sysaccept is actually (I think) an instance of the Method class, it
could have something like @parameters or @default_parameter_X_val
Does it have written somewhere infos about the parameter it gets or
what does it do ?

I seem to remember that I saw something like method.doc in that
language that starts with a P, do we have something like this in Ruby
?

If not, Why not?

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Hi,

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In message “does exist something like Method.info ?” on 03/01/03, gabriele renzi surrender_it@rc1.vip.lng.yahoo.com writes:

I seem to remember that I saw something like method.doc in that
language that starts with a P, do we have something like this in Ruby?

If not, Why not?

It makes the interpreter bigger. I think it should be a separate
program. I believe Dave Thomas is working on integrating ri and RDoc,
and I made approval to RDoc’ize the standard libraries (including C
written built-in). So “ri” situation will be improved.

						matz.
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it seems a good reason to me and even a good solution.
Could I even ask to have the ruby inline documentation
compiled/installed directly with the interpreter?

Not that instaling it launching rdoc is a big work, but it would be
nice :slight_smile:

thanks for answering me

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On Fri, 3 Jan 2003 10:12:17 +0900, matz@ruby-lang.org (Yukihiro Matsumoto) wrote:

Hi,

In message “does exist something like Method.info ?” > on 03/01/03, gabriele renzi surrender_it@rc1.vip.lng.yahoo.com writes:

I seem to remember that I saw something like method.doc in that
language that starts with a P, do we have something like this in Ruby?

If not, Why not?

It makes the interpreter bigger. I think it should be a separate
program. I believe Dave Thomas is working on integrating ri and RDoc,
and I made approval to RDoc’ize the standard libraries (including C
written built-in). So “ri” situation will be improved.
matz.

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That’s the eventual goal, but it’ll take a while…

Cheers

Dave

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On Friday, Jan 3, 2003, at 14:14 US/Central, gabriele renzi wrote:

Not that instaling it launching rdoc is a big work, but it would be
nice :slight_smile: