1. Scope

This document specifies the syntax and semantics of the computer programming language Ruby by specifying requirements for a conforming processor and for a conforming program.

This document does not specify:

• the size or complexity of a program text that exceeds the capacity of any specific data processing system or the capacity of a particular processor;
• the minimal requirements of a data processing system that is capable of supporting a conforming processor;
• the method for activating the execution of programs on a data processing system;
• the method for reporting syntactic and runtime errors.