Eloquent Ruby

Footnotes

Preface

1. Specifically, the examples all use Ruby-1.9.1-p430.

2. Especially me!

Acknowledgments

1. Well, originally they were Chapters 11, 12, and 13, and then they became Chapter 10 before settling down as 15 and 16. Now you know why those days were so dark.

Chapter 1

1. I had developed this talent over numerous lunches, happy hours, and late-night bull sessions. Oh, how I do devote myself to the cause.

2. But do take a good long look at the Document class because it’s going to be with us for much of the book.

3. The “problem like this” in the example is that it was written with randomly mixed tabs and spaces, with each tab worth two spaces. Now expand the tabs to four spaces each and you have the formatting chaos that we see. ...