On Apr 6, 2006, at 7:29 AM, Christian Neukirchen wrote:

> Logan Capaldo <logancapaldo / gmail.com> writes:
>
>> On Apr 5, 2006, at 4:58 AM, Vincent Isambart wrote:
>>
>>> Hi everyone,
>>>
>>> Here they are, translations of chapter 3, 4 and 6 of the Ruby
>>> Hacking Guide!
>>> We know the translation is far from being perfect, and we welcome  
>>> any
>>> correction on the text or diagrams of any chapter (even chapter 2).
>>> Please send them as patches (attached to the mail, not just in the
>>> body of the message) on the rhg-discussion mailing list
>>> (http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rhg-discussion). The patches
>>> should be done against the text files in the SVN repository
>>> (http://rubyforge.org/scm/?group_id=1387).
>>
>> Thanks! I just starting reading and, and found this gem of an
>> explanation for Qnil:
>>
>>> By the way, what is the Á²of Qnil? Á³I would have understood
>>> but why Á² When I asked, the answer was Å£ecause itÃÔ like that
>>> in Emacs I did not have the fun answer I was expecting>> Me either!
>
> Same reason ?x is used for character codes, by the way. ;-)
>
Whatever happened to #\x ??

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