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diff --git a/spec/rubyspec/language/README b/spec/rubyspec/language/README deleted file mode 100644 index b9d969ba1e..0000000000 --- a/spec/rubyspec/language/README +++ /dev/null @@ -1,30 +0,0 @@ -There are numerous possible way of categorizing the entities and concepts that -make up a programming language. Ruby has a fairly large number of reserved -words. These words significantly describe major elements of the language, -including flow control constructs like 'for' and 'while', conditional -execution like 'if' and 'unless', exceptional execution control like 'rescue', -etc. There are also literals for the basic "types" like String, Regexp, Array -and Fixnum. - -Behavorial specifications describe the behavior of concrete entities. Rather -than using concepts of computation to organize these spec files, we use -entities of the Ruby language. Consider looking at any syntactic element of a -Ruby program. With (almost) no ambiguity, one can identify it as a literal, -reserved word, variable, etc. There is a spec file that corresponds to each -literal construct and most reserved words, with the exceptions noted below. -There are also several files that are more difficult to classify: all -predefined variables, constants, and objects (predefined_spec.rb), the -precedence of all operators (precedence_spec.rb), the behavior of assignment -to variables (variables_spec.rb), the behavior of subprocess execution -(execution_spec.rb), the behavior of the raise method as it impacts the -execution of a Ruby program (raise_spec.rb), and the block entities like -'begin', 'do', ' { ... }' (block_spec.rb). - -Several reserved words and other entities are combined with the primary -reserved word or entity to which they are related: - -false, true, nil, self predefined_spec.rb -in for_spec.rb -then, elsif if_spec.rb -when case_spec.rb -catch throw_spec.rb |