Thomas,
I was about to say practically the same thing... in
python:
foreach( SomeObject )
It amazing! Its going save us billions in
development costs! Crom the Mighty, the patron diety
of Ruby on Rails is very pleased with block
enumerators.
Do they pass out pills at Ruby user group meetings?
-jmz
--- Thomas Hicks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> At 09:44 AM 6/22/2006, Chad wrote:
>
> >Cool. I checked out the REXML page. This quote is
> great:
> >
> >------------------------------------
> >"Some of the common differences are that the Ruby
> API relies on block
> >enumerations, rather than iterators. For example,
> the Java code:
> >
> >for (Enumeration e=parent.getChildren();
> e.hasMoreElements(); ) {
> > Element child = (Element)e.nextElement(); // Do
> something with child
> >}
> >
> >in Ruby becomes:
> >
> >parent.each_child{ |child| # Do something with
> child }
> >
> >Can't you feel the peace and contentment in this
> block of code? Ruby
> >is the language Buddha would have programmed in."
> >---------------------------------------
>
>
> Dr. Ralph Griswold (creator or SNOBOL and Icon
> programming languages)
> used to say that there's really nothing new under
> the sun in CS, it's all
> recycled. I have to note that this statement form
> you admire so much comes
> directly from Smalltalk of 20 years ago!
> regards,
> -tom
>
>
>
>
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