How "OO" is it? In Ruby, for better or for worse, everything is an object. Even classes themselves are objects. This makes it possible (if not prudent) to do pretty much anything.
How does it support cross-cutting concerns? Lately, I have been missing the ability to do Aspect-oriented programming in Ruby. For example, I want to HTML-escape the return value of any model getter which is in the call stack of a view. We ended up doing it manually, for every field in every view. When I started rambling about how you could do that sort of thing with 5 lines in AspectJ (and never have to worry about forgetting it for future fields), I just got blank stares... -- Chad On 4/21/07, Warner Onstine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi all, I was just curious, when you start learning a new language, what do try and do first? Here are some of the ones that I look at: - looping (how do I do a for loop) - if, then, else - switches (do they exist?) - object and array creation (what types are there and how do I do it) In a sense this goes beyond just syntax and assumes that you (the developer) already have some knowledge of how to program and are familiar with OO. -warner Warner Onstine - Programmer/Author New book! Tapestry 101 available at http://sourcebeat.com/books/ tapestrylive.html [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://warneronstine.com/blog --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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