4555-4797

^ proc and block local variables causes a [BUG]
4555 [s-urabe par.] Maybe I just don't understand what is happening to the CVS but...
4556 [matz ruby-la] It is a bug.  Thank you for reporting.

^ Time.c on Win32
4557 [rich infoeth] Hope this is not noise for this list, but could someone explain why we
4558 [matz ruby-la] Because time.c rely on underlying time calculation functions on the

^ [ ruby-Bugs-1615 ] Segmentation Fault with cygwin on winxp while running Instiki
4559 [noreply ruby] Bugs item #1615, was opened at 2005-03-10 16:50

^ off_t weirdness
4560 [mailing-list] #include <assert.h>
4562 [cmills frees] In this case /usr/include/features.h is included (by assert.h) before
4563 [cmills frees] Oopps.  I guess the constant is probably in config.h, not defines.h...

^ rb_reg_quote weirdness
4561 [mailing-list] (Two weirdnesses in one day.)
4564 [matz ruby-la] For efficiency, avoiding unnecessary copy is sought.  For consistency,
4565 [sroberts uni] I think your choice is right. If people want to duplicate the string,
4566 [mailing-list] You mean Regexp.quote(str).dup
4568 [sroberts uni] But not an unsolvable problem. If you really need a copy (despite that

^ Immutable Ropes
4567 [mailing-list] Note how I didn't write "Immutable Strings" in the subject.
+ 4569 [sroberts uni] It would be useful in decoding large files like iCalendars or .vcf
| 4571 [mailing-list] Precisely.
+ 4570 [ruby-lists l] thanks for the reference. i'll probably take a
+ 4573 [matju sympat] One related project is my old project called MetaRuby. I presented it at
  4574 [mailing-list] Perhaps most importantly, Rope would be a built-in type in Ruby 2.0, at
  4607 [matju sympat] It's nice to have such a world, as long as it's connected with reality. In
  4609 [mailing-list] Well, O(lg n) is pretty damn fast.  At that point it becomes more

^ [PATCH] RDoc - :nodoc: and macro in C
4572 [nobu.nokada ] * lib/rdoc/parsers/parse_c.rb (RDoc::C_Parser#find_body): allow

^ Allowing "?" in struct members
4575 [Daniel.Berge] It has come to my attention that struct members that contain "?" are no
+ 4576 [Daniel.Berge] I read the follow-up threads, and I have to agree with Mathieu.  ?=
+ 4577 [matz ruby-la] It's intentional, so that it shouldn't be a bug.   But your message
  + 4578 [florgro gmai] Though I wonder if having "foo?" and "foo=" for boolean accessors like
  | + 4579 [ntalbott gma] class C
  | + 4580 [matz ruby-la] No.  attr_accessor would not accept attributes with "?" in the name.
  |   + 4581 [Daniel.Berge] Excellent solution IMHO.  How difficult would this be to implement?
  |   + 4582 [florgro gmai] Oh, "this" was not referring to the original poster here -- I was
  |     4584 [djberg96 yah] Do nothing.  The "foo=" method would be redefined in
  + 4585 [matju sympat] Ok, what about struct members starting with an uppercase? that change in
    4586 [matz ruby-la] They should be allowed.  Thank you.

^ [ ruby-Bugs-1641 ] webrick server sometimes bus errors - sometimes hangs
4583 [noreply ruby] Bugs item #1641, was opened at 2005-03-17 14:48

^ 0**0==1?
4587 [lists bertra] => 1
4588 [chneukirchen] Interesting... Perl and Python say 0**0 is 1, Maxima (that should know
+ 4589 [alexandru.po] [quote Christian Neukirchen::on 3/19/2005 3:00 PM]
| 4615 [holmberg iar] In the C standard, in normative Annex F (IEC 60559 floating-point
+ 4590 [lists bertra] Ah, okay. It's surely a matter of taste, but I would like to
+ 4591 [matju sympat] It's true that 0**0 is undefined, but I think 0**0 should give 1 because

^ soap4r and nws.noaa.gov
4592 [tsuraan xyon] I'm not sure if this is the right place to ask this, but has anyone
4593 [sroberts uni] I suspect ruby-talk might be a better place to ask, I've seen soap

^ bug fixes and extensions to resolv.rb for mDNS support
4594 [sroberts uni] Fyi, net-mdns-0.1 contains modified versions of resolv.rb and

^ New block syntax
4595 [daniel.amela] I'm really sorry if this isn't the place to talk about this. I've
+ 4597 [florgro gmai] If we require Hashs to be of the { key => value } form instead of the {
| 4598 [michael.walt] How does that work for empty hashes vs. empty-bodied lambdas?
| + 4599 [alexandru.po] [quote Michael Walter::on 3/21/2005 4:03 PM]
| + 4600 [florgro gmai] Empty blocks would have to be specified as { nil }. I think this makes
|   4601 [Daniel.Berge] I extremely DISLIKE the new proposed syntax for proc/blocks.  I would rather we kept lambda/proc keyword mandatory, rather than end up with goofball syntax like the above, just so we can make anonymous procs more Perly.
|   + 4602 [florgro gmai] This does not have much to do with Perl AFAIK.
|   + 4603 [matju sympat] Could you please tell us what makes the new syntax more Perly, and the
|     + 4604 [Daniel.Berge] I was thinking of sub references in Perl/Tk actually.  But, the "Perly"
|     | 4605 [ruby-lists l] blah proc { preproc }, proc { postproc }
|     | 4608 [gsinclair so] blah { preproc }, { postproc }
|     + 4610 [florgro gmai] ...
|     + 4613 [ryand-ruby z] ...
|       4614 [daniel.amela] I fear that my mistake in posting to the wrong list has polluted
+ 4606 [dblack wobbl] { 1,2,3,4 }   # a hash
| 4629 [ser germane-] charset="utf-8"
| 4631 [dblack wobbl] Possibly.
| + 4633 [daniel.amela] Hey David, I think that we've had some misunderstandings due to
| | 4634 [dblack wobbl] You're right that we're talking about multiple things at the same
| | + 4635 [daniel.amela] Very good point. I was trying to think of a counter-example, but
| | + 4639 [ser germane-] charset="utf-8"
| |   + 4640 [ruby-lists l] not sure why this is ad hominem but then i don't
| |   + 4641 [dblack wobbl] Ruby variables are untyped, so there's no ground for comparison.  At
| |     4642 [florgro gmai] There's some weird guys who like to use different constant styles based
| |     + 4644 [dblack wobbl] This message is in MIME format.  The first part should be readable text,
| |     + 4651 [chneukirchen] Ok, I must be weird then :-9
| |       4658 [matju arteng] was your youth again? ;-)
| |       4660 [chneukirchen] Does that mean I'm famous now?
| + 4638 [ser germane-] charset="utf-8"
+ 4628 [ser germane-] charset="utf-8"
  4630 [dblack wobbl] I find the visual reliance on the : separator as an indicator of
  4637 [ser germane-] charset="utf-8"
  + 4643 [dblack wobbl] a = SomeClass.new
  + 4646 [halostatue g] I do like [:] as a null hash, and I like the way of specifying --
    4647 [matju arteng] Perl's basic types may be scalar/array/hash, but after that there's another

^ Sorry
4596 [daniel.amela] Whoops, I realize now that my last post should have gone to ruby-dev, sorry!

^ want_object? - possible?
4611 [Daniel.Berge] I mentioned this on ruby-talk, but thought I should mention it here in
+ 4616 [halostatue g] Um. I oppose this for the sole reason that it looks, smells, sounds,
| + 4617 [Daniel.Berge] I generally don't have a problem with it, but I can understand why folks
| + 4714 [discordantus] I wholly agree with that. Perhaps a different name would have less
+ 4618 [nobu.nokada ] I don't think it is absolutely impossible, but,
  4619 [djberg96 yah] But it's not being used as part of a method call, i.e.
  4620 [dblack wobbl] I don't think there is a way, logically, within the basic
  4711 [discordantus] module Enumerable
  4717 [dblack wobbl] I still don't like the look-ahead aspect of this.  It seems to me to
  4718 [discordantus] I don't see it as a "what happens after" type thing; more of a "what's

^ URI.parse and Socket.getaddrinfo don't cooperate with IPv6 addresses
4612 [sroberts uni] irb(main):002:0> URI.parse("http://[::1]").host

^ [ ruby-Bugs-1688 ] [PATCH] Bugfixes to ripper HEAD - broken depend, and regexp_literal lacks options
4621 [noreply ruby] Bugs item #1688, was opened at 2005-03-25 22:01

^ [PATCH] tempfile.rb
4622 [tilman code-] require "tempfile"
4786 [tilman code-] Any comments? Please?
4788 [nobu.nokada ] Your example worked fine with 1.9, so it should be backported
4789 [tilman code-] My point is that the code in HEAD looks suspicious, so I sent in a better

^ [ ruby-Bugs-1691 ] getRootWindow() error
4623 [noreply ruby] Bugs item #1691, was opened at 2005-03-28 12:10
4624 [lyle.johnson] This is a bug in FXRuby and nothing specific to the Ruby interpreter.
4625 [tom infoethe] Done.

^ Is there something wrong with the GC?
4626 [home wvdbos.] charset="iso-8859-1"

^ [ ruby-Bugs-1701 ] [drb/ssl] Undefined method verbose.
4627 [noreply ruby] Bugs item #1701, was opened at 2005-03-29 23:21

^ [ ruby-Bugs-1706 ] net/imap + openssl hangs
4632 [noreply ruby] Bugs item #1706, was opened at 30/03/2005 23:04

^ Minor doc fix (numeric.c)
4636 [emiel il.fon] Here a minor documentation fix in numeric.c
4645 [matz ruby-la] Thank you.

^ about REXML::Encoding
4648 [speakillof y] I read [ruby-core:1960]. This post pointed out the problems of
4659 [ser germane-] charset="utf-8"
4661 [speakillof y] I write a script in which  'euc-jp' and 'utf-8' are tested.
4684 [ser germane-] charset="utf-8"
4688 [nobu.nokada ] The indentation seems inconsistent.
+ 4694 [ser germane-] charset="utf-8"
| 4696 [nobu.nokada ] Tabs and spaces.  I made the patch with 2 column width tabs,
| 4700 [ser germane-] charset="utf-8"
| 4701 [nobu.nokada ] The patch in the archived post is indented with tabs, so it
+ 4695 [ser germane-] charset="utf-8"
  4697 [nobu.nokada ] They were not there when I posted the patch.

^ Building HEAD is semi-broken for win32
4649 [ntalbott gma] Recent changes to the win32 build process broke my build. Basically,
4650 [nobu.nokada ] Sorry, I forgot to backport setup.mak files, and quirkiness
4665 [ntalbott gma] On Apr 2, 2005 12:05 AM, nobu.nokada@softhome.net

^ Ruby interpreter crashs reproduceable
4652 [mailinglists] I got a problem with the 1.8.2 on windows.
4653 [matz ruby-la] Can you post the whole program (along with input file preferably) so

^ signleton_methods / methods / public_methods - weirdness?
4654 [holmberg iar] I was trying to find out the "class methods" of some classes.
4655 [dblack wobbl] "singleton_methods(true)" means "singleton methods on this object or,
+ 4656 [ruby-ml magi] other = obj.clone
| 4657 [dblack wobbl] But in that case, the clone is calling its own singleton method of the
+ 4664 [holmberg iar] Thanks for your answer. I think I understand your point.

^ set_trace_func since CVS 2005-04-04: No return events?
4662 [florgro gmai] Moin.
+ 4673 [matz ruby-la] No.  Can you confirm today's fix by Shugo Maeda works for you?
+ 4674 [shugo ruby-l] This behaviour was introduced in revision 1.767 and 1.616.2.86 of
  4683 [florgro gmai] Thank you, it appears to work again now.

^ [PATCH] openssl session id support
4663 [evan falling] The following patch adds support for setting the session id within an

^ Getting a hex representation for a Numeric
4666 [rubyzbibd ub] I was disappointed to find that there is not an instance method for
4667 [ntalbott gma] irb(main):002:0> 42.to_s(16)
4669 [rubyzbibd ub] Thanks for the info!  When you think about it this is a great

^ [ ruby-Bugs-1745 ] ruby-lex hangs if there is no newline at end of file
4668 [noreply ruby] Bugs item #1745, was opened at 2005-04-06 22:43

^ ruby 1.8.3 preview1 plan
4670 [matz ruby-la] I am going to release 1.8.3 preview1 on April 12, unless something
+ 4671 [florgro gmai] I think that trace_funcs might be broken or that there has been a
| 4672 [matz ruby-la] It's on my todo list.
+ 4675 [holmberg iar] I reported a problem 2004-12-23 on 1.8.2 preview4. It seems to have
| 4676 [nobu.nokada ] Seems working to me.
| 4677 [holmberg iar] Sorry, my mistake.
+ 4678 [nobu.nokada ] What about [ruby-core:04572]?  I don't want to show internal
+ 4679 [mailinglists] Can we please make this binary compatible with 1.8.2 or at least
| 4698 [nobu.nokada ] Upper binary compatible.
+ 4680 [wvdbos gouda] #====================
| 4685 [nobu.nokada ] GC doesn't guarantee that an object will be collected as soon
| 4686 [home wvdbos.] Ok, but I would expect after assigning a nill, and calling the GC
| 4687 [nobu.nokada ] Do not rely on GC to release resources, use "ensure" clause
+ 4689 [steven.jenki] Did you decide what to do about this?
+ 4731 [tilman code-] Please have a look at ruby-core:04622.

^ [PATCH] logger.rb
4681 [thomas_leitn] Fixed documentation and removed one useless line
4682 [Daniel.Berge] I took "iff" to mean "if and only if", not a typo.

^ [ ruby-Bugs-1762 ] test failures for stable-snapshot 09/04/2005
4690 [noreply ruby] Bugs item #1762, was opened at 10-04-2005 20:46
4691 [ocean m2.ccs] Maybe, did you test before install? I saw same error by following steps. (I attached error message)
4692 [ocean m2.ccs] Fixed 4 and 5.
4693 [ocean m2.ccs] I found that drb error are gone if "test/drb/drbtest.rb" and "test/ruby/envutil.rb" are

^ [ANN] Server Maintenance
4699 [shugo ruby-l] It may be down briefly.

^ ICONV.rb and other encodings (about REXML::Encoding)
4702 [speakillof y] Thank you for adopting nobu's patch.
4703 [vincent.isam] This is strange, iconv works quite well. It only raises an error when
4704 [speakillof y] I should have explained the problem more precisely.
4705 [vincent.isam] Yes, thanks, it's better this way :)

^ Back-port win32ole 0.6.1 to 1.8?
4706 [ntalbott gma] win32ole 0.6.1, which is currently in HEAD, adds support for codepage

^ Small 1.9 fixes
4707 [flori nixe.p] two small fixes in the attachment, that fix the broken installation of
4708 [keiju ishits] Thank you for bug report related irb.

^ BNF-like grammar specified DIRECTLY in Ruby
4709 [eric_mahurin] I hope I'm not intruding, but I think I found
+ 4710 [matju arteng] Let me tell you just one thing: we need more people like you.
+ 4715 [florgro gmai] This is good stuff and I will have a deeper look at it soon as I still
  4716 [eric_mahurin] I noticed that yahoo base64 encoded my attachments in my
  4729 [daniel.amela] Hey Eric, you really should consider posting this to the ruby-talk

^ Segfault in zlib?
4712 [ntalbott gma] I'm using rubyzip (latest gem version) and zlib (1.2.2) to do a bunch
+ 4713 [ntalbott gma] To clarify myself, I think the problem is in the Ruby zlib extension,
+ 4720 [ntalbott gma] require 'rubygems'
  + 4722 [ntalbott gma] msvcrt-ruby18.dll!rb_str_buf_cat(unsigned long str=59443296, const
  + 4726 [ntalbott gma] ntalbott@jacob:~/tmp$ ruby t.rb
  | 4728 [steven.jenki] Seems to work OK on Linux 2.4.28 with Ruby 1.8.2.
  + 4730 [ocean m2.ccs] Does this patch fix SEGV?
    + 4733 [ntalbott gma] Yes it does... thank you for your help.
    | 4734 [ocean m2.ccs] OK, this is ext/zlib's GC related bug.
    + 4735 [matz ruby-la] Can you commit the patch please?

^ return_value? [Was: Re: want_object? - possible?]
4719 [drbrain segm] Sneaking a peak up the parse tree is quite difficult, because its
4724 [discordantus] I thought that might be a problem... perhaps the information could
4725 [dblack wobbl] It's more an example of what would have happened, already, with a
4727 [discordantus] Okay, I misunderstood then. Still, I don't think they are in the same

^ ruby 1.8 cvs: configure.in solaris incompatibilty
4721 [ville.mattil] Solaris /usr/sbin/install and neither /usr/ucb do not have "-p" option so
4723 [hgs dmu.ac.u] there is no -p option for /etc/install either (solaris9), and gnu shtool

^ RDoc Patch
4732 [juergen.mang] It would be nice to have the following patch in rdoc/parse_c.rb

^ [PATCH] Trivial speedup in Array#zip
4736 [batsman.geo ] (2..7).each do |i|
+ 4738 [dooby d10.ka] Support here :-)
+ 4739 [nobu.nokada ] `tmp' can be modified or stored anywhere while yielding, so it
  4740 [batsman.geo ] I see. What about this?
  + 4741 [dooby d10.ka] I guess Nobu's answer remains the same ?
  | 4743 [batsman.geo ] batsman@tux-chan:/tmp/ruby$ ./ruby
  + 4744 [ocean m2.ccs] It doesn't look nice both optimized code (masign) and non optimized code (array) coexist.

^ ruby 1.9 CVS rdoc genration fails
4737 [ville.mattil] uninitialized constant RubyLex::SLex (NameError)

^ [ANN] Anonymous CVS Service Stopped
4742 [shugo ruby-l] We stopped the anonymous CVS service because of the security update of

^ Win32: Ruby & APR; build problems for Ruby Subversion SWIG bindings
4745 [ehuels gmail] Having taken upon me the task to provide a Windows build for
+ 4746 [halostatue g] I believe that apr.h defines this properly, and Ruby should do it the
| 4747 [ehuels gmail] Thanks for the speedy reaction!
| + 4760 [usa garbagec] Of course we (windows port maintainers) are watching this list.
| + 4762 [nobu.nokada ] Such redefinition is disallowed.
|   4783 [ehuels gmail] Ah, but it only does that on Windows, not on POSIX platforms. On POSIX
|   4787 [nobu.nokada ] Not only on Windows, any platforms which don't have [ugp]id_t.
|   + 4791 [halostatue g] For 1.8.x, find some way to warn people compiling that they shouldn't
|   + 4794 [ehuels gmail] Actually, Ruby uses a #define (as a result from the old use of
|     4795 [nobu.nokada ] What `flaw'?  Using #define instead of typedef itself?  I don't
|     4797 [ehuels gmail] *I* don't call it a flaw, the Autoconf manual does. It has called it a
+ 4750 [kou cozmixng] In <aea328ab0504200722376b8b94@mail.gmail.com>
| 4755 [ehuels gmail] No, because gid_t an uid_t are defined (conditionally on WIN32) in
| 4757 [dooby d10.ka] You're in the right place for both, Erik.
+ 4784 [ehuels gmail] I take that as a signal to go implement apr_pid_t and friends for all