Ok, maybe not real love, but I sure am in lust with this language. The more I read about it and it's syntax, I believe this could possibly be the most beautiful programming language in existence.
Take for exampe this code snippet. temp = a; a = b; b = temp; written in Ruby would be a,b = b,a Succinct and to the point isn't it? Another really cool feature is that everything is an object. Even though a simple arithmetic statement is written like this: a+b*c it's actually this (a.+ b).* c +, *, /, etc are actually methods of objects. So, what's the use? Well, you can override any method in Ruby, ANY method. Don't like the way it multiplies, change it. Not very useful, but it really shines in situation like presented in my Programming Ruby book. Say you have a song object that encapsulates a lot of information about a single song. You want to have a function that will play a snippet of that song. You can create a method named [] that will override the index method usually applied to arrays. Then you could reference it by song[0,15].play. The song[0,15] would return a new song with a 15 second duration and then send it to your generic play method. One other thing that I really think is neat is the ability to define mutator methods. By default, methods work on a copy of the arguments passed in, if you name your methods ending with a '!', the method will work on the argument itself. So, obj.chop would be a nonmutator, obj.chop! would be and modify the passed in values. I like directness of this. Okay, enough of my Ruby soapbox. Go back to your weekends people. What the hell are you doing on your computers this time of night. Marlon -- Invite 50 Friends to Gmail! Who has friggin' 50 friends!? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| 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:5:155116 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
