Some minor things in the paper edition that says “3 2020” on the title page verso, not mentioned in the book’s errata online:
p. 186 But Erlang (and it’s progeny … should be: its
p. 205 chart O(n ln n) should be: O(n lg n)
p. 221 Ad Hoc Testing “run poke at our code manually”: I’m not sure exactly what is meant here. Maybe leave out “run”: poke at our code manually
p. 222 “Ignore a spew … makes it easier to ignore all the tests”: not sure what this means. “Ignore a spew”?
p. 226 “raise Exception”: needs to be indented two more spaces (significant in Python)
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Hello!!!
I also notice on the possible answer for the exercise 8 (page 297, solution in ruby of the time parser) the regular expression for the tenths of minutes includes 6, so hours like 6:66 pm are valid.
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Hi,
I also noticed the following (book with ISBN-13: 978-0-13-595705-9):
- page 140, in the code for
strings_fsm.rb, for the state in_string, I think the matching character should be a single backslash instead of two.
- page 160, “When the top level calls
my_car.move_at(30) , the method …”, the object name (my_car) does not align with the top-level code example (my_ride). I think one of the two should be changed so they align.
- page 196, “But it applies to the bigger picture are well”, I think instead of “are” there should be “as”.
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p. 120 - in the second code snippet there seems to be one missing statement:
write_customer between the following two lines:
@balance = @balance.add(transaction_amount, 2) # |
# --> here, I think, write_customer call is missing
file.close # <--
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In the Italian edition the error is at page 97 not 120.
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page 125: “Don’t Outrun Your Headlights”
A hairpin comes up and the car misses it, crashing though the skimpy guardrail…"
s/though/through/
At the top of p. 222, they say:
“Poorly or inconsistently formatted diagnostics are just so much “spew”—they are difficult to read and impractical to parse.”
Maybe that helps?
@jon - Re: “run poke”, I googled the phrase followed by the word “code” and found these references.
Maybe this helps?
@pragdave
In the solution for Exercise 6 at pag 295 (Answer 6)
Using BNF a time spec… could be
…
h-tens ::= 0|1|2 ( I think 2 shall be added here as I can have 20:30 or also 21:30 …)
