I'm not trying to trash Ruby... just wanted to make the comment that... given the description of the previous message, in which all the language's fundamental operators (+/ modulus, array notation, etc) are methods which anyone can overwrite, I would imagine that would mean great for hackers, but you'd have to be clinically insane to provide technical support for anything written in Ruby, given that you would never be able to say with any certainty that for instance array notation works in a specific manner (or for that matter that it even _should_ work in a specific manner).
The mutators point is interesting, although personally I think I prefer for mutator to be the default -- this is an unfortunate area where I dislike CF's implementation, although it's too late to do anything about it now, that CF functions are mutators by default until the argument is an array. I prefer mutators by default because it's real easy to just duplicate(argument) inside the function to change its behavior, and don't really see a large advantage in having a notational cue in the method name to indicate if the function is or isn't a mutator. > 1. Yes, I'm using it on win32 currently. I believe it > runs on several > different platforms. > 2. There are windowing toolkits available. I've not > ventured into > them yet. I'm more interested in the web application > server side of > things. > On 4/22/05, C. Hatton Humphrey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: >> Sounds interesting and I've heard a bit about it before - >> my two questions are: >> >> 1. I know that Ruby is big on *nix, does it exist in any >> format on >> Windows? and if so >> 2. Can it interact in a desktop environment or is it used >> solely for >> behind the scenes stuff? >> >> Hatton s. isaac dealey 954.522.6080 new epoch : isn't it time for a change? add features without fixtures with the onTap open source framework http://www.fusiontap.com http://www.sys-con.com/author/?id=4806 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Discover CFTicket - The leading ColdFusion Help Desk and Trouble Ticket application http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=48 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:5:155129 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:5 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
