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hgs (Hugh Sasse)

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  • Registered on: 01/25/2010
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03/05/2010

07:07 PM Ruby Feature #905: Add String.new(fixnum) to preallocate large buffer
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On Fri, 5 Mar 2010, Yusuke ENDOH wrote:

> Hi,
>
> 2010/3/5 Hugh Sasse <hgs@dmu.ac.uk>:
> >> At first glance, the document explains the difference of destructive
> >> and non-destructive concatenations, like String#+ and #...
hgs (Hugh Sasse)
02:51 AM Ruby Feature #905: Add String.new(fixnum) to preallocate large buffer
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On Fri, 5 Mar 2010, Yusuke ENDOH wrote:

> Hi,
>
> 2010/3/5 Hugh Sasse <hgs@dmu.ac.uk>:
> > Yes (last time I looked), but while this sort of thing is
> > being looked at I'd like to remind people of the cunning code in...
hgs (Hugh Sasse)
02:13 AM Ruby Feature #905: Add String.new(fixnum) to preallocate large buffer
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On Fri, 5 Mar 2010, Kornelius Kalnbach wrote:

> Doesn't Ruby allocate already using a "double memory if you run out"
> rule? That makes string concatenation (amortized) linear, even if the
> string must be moved in the memor...
hgs (Hugh Sasse)

03/04/2010

07:53 PM Ruby Feature #2759: Regexp /g and /G options
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On Thu, 4 Mar 2010, Vincent Isambart wrote:

> > The objections to this feature amounted to "it's complicated for users to understand and no-one needs it". Which would be a perfectly valid justification if true, but clearly Mic...
hgs (Hugh Sasse)

03/03/2010

04:05 AM Ruby Feature #2515: Array#select!
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On Wed, 3 Mar 2010, Yusuke Endoh wrote:

> Hi,
>
> 2010/3/2 Marc-Andre Lafortune <redmine@ruby-lang.org>:
> > I feel the name select! is as appropriate as map! , collect! and reject!
>
> Some feel appropriate, and some i...
hgs (Hugh Sasse)

03/02/2010

07:45 PM Ruby Feature #2515: Array#select!
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I got tripped up by redmine there: I thought that was going off list,
but while the name of the addressee was there, the address was the
redmine one, which I didn't notice. I'd argue that is a misfeature.

I think the case f...
hgs (Hugh Sasse)
05:04 AM Ruby Feature #2515: Array#select!
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On Tue, 2 Mar 2010, Roger Pack wrote:

> Issue #2515 has been updated by Roger Pack.
[...]
> Currently we are forced to use reject! which is surprising...
[...]
> But it surprisingly doesn't exist (reject h...
hgs (Hugh Sasse)

02/07/2010

11:16 PM Ruby Feature #2666: ext/curses: improved structure for view2
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Thank you. I'm glad I could help.
Hugh

On Sat, 6 Feb 2010, Shugo Maeda wrote:

> Issue #2666 has been updated by Shugo Maeda.
>
> Status changed from Assigned to Closed
>
> I have replaced view2.rb with your ...
hgs (Hugh Sasse)

01/29/2010

03:20 AM Ruby Bug #2669: mkmf find_executable doesn't find .bat files
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Composing my email crossed with yours. Yes, I think
that rubyforge ticket you link to would cover it.
A quick prod of dln.c suggests it is dln_find_1
we are talking about.

Is there a way to expose this mechanism to mkm...
hgs (Hugh Sasse)
03:02 AM Ruby Bug #2669: mkmf find_executable doesn't find .bat files
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On Fri, 29 Jan 2010, Luis Lavena wrote:

> Issue #2669 has been updated by Luis Lavena.
>
>
> Neither cygwin or MSYS (which is based in cygwin) likes batch files, that is one of the reasons is not marked as executable.
> ...
hgs (Hugh Sasse)

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