Index

Note: Page numbers in italics indicate figures, those with t indicate tables, and those with n indicate footnotes.

Symbols

/ (slash)

root URL, 60

Unix directory separator, 8

== (equal signs)

assignment operator, 423-424, 438-439

equality operator, 164

\ (backslash)

as escape character, 155

as literal character, 155

" " (double quotes)

defining strings, 155

exchanging for single quotes, 155

mixing with single quotes, 136

: (colon), as a hashkey, 171-172

!! (exclamation points), coercing Boolean values, 158, 295

!= (exclamation point, equal sign), not equal operator, 164

' (single quotes), mixing with double quotes, 136

[ ] (square brackets), accessing elements, 164

@ (at sign), instance variables, 72, 224

/* ... */ (slash, asterisk), CSS ...

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