<sarcasm>
Its no where near the level of peace and contentment
that ruby offers. There's just something so darn cool
about Ruby I cant seem to put my finger on it. Maybe
its the cool graphics. Maybe its the videos and the
fact that ruby programmers use Macs. Maybe its that
it hasent showed up on India's radar just yet.
</sarcasm>
--- Drew Davidson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
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