Forum: Ruby

On Fri, 21 Nov 2003 14:50:27 +0900, Sean O'Dell wrote: That's enough, Sean. Everyone knows now that you're a spoiled little brat who doesn't like...

I can't seem to marshal a delegate. The code below: class Foo < SimpleDelegate end Marshal.dump(Foo.new(nil)) Gives me an error:...

Hi Sean, The ruby code below illustrates some of my views on type/interface checking. First of all I'm not that fond of interface checking using...

Hi all, I'm happy to announce the first release of the win32-clipboard package. What is it? - An interface to the Win32 Clipboard functions....

On Fri, 21 Nov 2003 08:07:34 +0900, Weirich, James wrote: I don't like it because it's an empty promise. class Foo interface IO end Now,...

Hi -- On Fri, 21 Nov 2003, Sean O'Dell wrote: I'm not big on the "Just Do It" stuff (I boycott Nike actually), so you'll have to forgive me...

Hi -- On Fri, 21 Nov 2003, Yukihiro Matsumoto wrote: I'm not trying to persuade you not to do it -- just pointing out that the fact that...

Sean, How can this be done efficiently with Ruby's dynamic nature at compile time? I'm going to go read your proposal now. =) Zach

Hi, In message "Re: "stereotyping" (was: Re: Strong Typing (Re: Managing metadata about attribute types) )" on 03/11/21, dblack@wobblini.net...

matz: yes. there are variouz levels of reflection (or introspection). ruby has very good reflection for OO metaphor. you can examine inside...

On Fri, 21 Nov 2003 04:24:59 +0900, Sean O'Dell wrote: That you haven't heard of it strongly suggests you don't do Unix development, but I could...

On Fri, 21 Nov 2003 04:06:51 +0900, Sean O'Dell wrote: With the exception of Thien's statement, I haven't seen *reasoning*. I've seen excuses and...

On Thu, 20 Nov 2003 16:02:14 +0900, Thien Vuong wrote: Note that what follows is my opinion only: * Checking against your own types. See...

On Fri, 21 Nov 2003 02:35:05 +0900, Sean O'Dell wrote: Forgive me for being boggled, Sean. That's typically the third thing that I do (after...

On Thu, 20 Nov 2003 05:48:37 +0900, Sean O'Dell wrote: Likely not. Because if you're looking at choosing a scripting language based on its...

Hi -- On Fri, 21 Nov 2003, Chad Fowler wrote: How strict is strict? :-) David --

On Thursday 20 November 2003 09:56 am, dblack@wobblini.net wrote: No has to just do it. But when people ask for something, it gets annoying to...

On Thu, 20 Nov 2003 14:52:17 +0900, Thien Vuong wrote: Again: why? Why do you need intrinsic interface validation? As Michael Campbell noted, if...

qyyOn Thu, 20 Nov 2003, Sean O'Dell wrote: # # A contract is any interface, and a Ruby class is an interface. True, a Ruby # class isn't the...

Excuse that last post. It was an abandoned one that ended up getting accidentally sent. Chad On Thu, 20 Nov 2003, Chad Fowler wrote: #...