Rubyists,
I’m proud to announce that there is now a FAQ entry describing most of the
@!#$#%^-etc you see in Ruby code. This is thanks to extensive discussion on
the list, and hopefully will be of great help to newbies in the future.
So in future, if someone asks what a certain symbol means, by all means answer
their question, but also point them to the FAQ for further information. It’s
question 6.12, which we’ll all forget and which may change. Also, they may not
be able to find the FAQ, but that’s a different story…
Thanks again for all the input.
Cheers,
Gavin
http://www.rubygarden.org/iowa/faqtotum
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Gavin Sinclair Software Engineer
Sydney, Australia Soyabean Software Pty Ltd
“Gavin Sinclair” gsinclair@soyabean.com.au wrote in
news:071401c29a9b$c2937fd0$d44532d2@nosedog:
I’m proud to announce that there is now a FAQ entry describing most of
the @!#$#%^-etc you see in Ruby code. This is thanks to extensive
discussion on the list, and hopefully will be of great help to newbies
in the future.
So in future, if someone asks what a certain symbol means, by all
means answer their question, but also point them to the FAQ for
further information. It’s question 6.12, which we’ll all forget and
which may change. Also, they may not be able to find the FAQ, but
that’s a different story…
http://www.rubygarden.org/iowa/faqtotum
Looks good so far. I’d like to see an explanation of things like:
$:
as well…
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Robert Cowham
http://www.rubygarden.org/iowa/faqtotum
Looks good so far. I’d like to see an explanation of things like:
$:
as well…
Fair question, but that’s already answered quite well by available materials.
That is, the FAQ set out to enumerate the punctuation used in Ruby code. All
of it is covered in Ruby references, of course, but not all in one place.
“Ruby in a Nutshell” (definitely) and the Pickaxe (presumably) cover these in
one place. So I’ll put up a FAQ entry, but it will refer to these (and the
English library 
Gavin
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From: “Robert Cowham” rc@vaccaperna.co.uk