Re: [jug-discussion] App Dev Framework choices

[Drew Davidson]

And in OGNL it's similar to apply an _expression_ to any collection, enumeration or iterator:     parent.children.{ #this.doSomething() } or you can filter any collection, enumeration or iterator using     filteredItems = parent.children.{? name.startsWith("foo") } This is what Buddha would have used for an _expression_ language. - Drew // OGNL since 1998 josh zeidner wrote: 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 --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- +---------------------------------+ < Drew Davidson | OGNL Technology > +---------------------------------+ | Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] / | Web: http://www.ognl.org / | Vox: (520) 531-1966 < | Fax: (520) 531-1965 \ | Mobile: (520) 405-2967 \ +---------------------------------+