<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <title> Ruby Language Reference Manual</title> </head> <BODY text="#000000" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"> <center> <h1>Ruby Language Reference Manual</h1> <h3>version 1.4.6</h3> </center> <p align=right> Yukihiro Matsumoto<br> <a href="mailto:matz@zetabits.com">matz@zetabits.com</a></p> <hr> <h1>Table of Contents</h1> <p> </p> <ul> <li> <a href="preface.html">Preface</a> <li> <a href="options.html">Command-line options</a> <li> <a href="syntax.html">Ruby syntax</a> <li> The standard library <ul> <li> <a href="function.html">Built-in functions</a> <li> <a href="variable.html#variables">Predefined variables</a> <li> <a href="variable.html#constants">Predefined constants</a> <li> <a href="classes.html#classes">Predefined classes</a> <li> <a href="classes.html#modules">Predefined modules</a> </ul> <li> <a href="bundle.html">Bundled libraries</a> <li> <a href="yacc.html"><strong>Ruby</strong> Syntax in Pseudo BNF</a> </ul> <hr> <!-- hhmts start --> Last modified: Mon Feb 23 16:01:41 1998 <!-- hhmts end--> </body> </html>