The old days, eh? Some of us still code in BASIC. :-) 2009/3/10 Torm3nt <[email protected]>: > I don't see why that module would be of any use, other than a gimmick. Imo, > all it does is decrease readability, kind've like the old days of GOTO 15. > > Kirk > > On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 10:27 PM, Julio Cesar Ody <[email protected]> > wrote: >> >> At one stage I seriously thought about implementing ButFirst.pm in >> Ruby. I couldn't think of a nice way that would make it work as nicely >> as in Perl, but who knows, maybe in 1.9. >> >> >> On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 9:56 PM, Chris Lloyd >> <[email protected]> wrote: >> > Julio, my man, you have just inspired me to learn Perl. That is awesome. >> > I personally love the Hash syntax. >> > { >> > 'start' => 'end' >> > }.each{|target, destination| `ln -s #{target} #{destination}` } >> > { >> > Klass => :method >> > }.collect{|k,m| k.send(m) } >> > It's just a beautiful way of signifying all sorts of things. Though Obie >> > beat me to it. Similarly, I also like how Ruby only has two >> > standard implementations of collections, not 11. >> > >> > On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 8:06 PM, Perryn Fowler <[email protected]> >> > wrote: >> >> >> >> > Symbol-to-proc, and the use of `&` to coerce things to procs: >> >> > >> >> > [1,2,3,4,5].select(&:odd?) >> >> >> >> personally I have never liked this. >> >> >> >> It is one of those idioms where you have to know what it does to know >> >> what it does. I prefer readability over terseness every time. >> >> >> >> >> > >> > >> > >> > -- >> > chrislloyd.com.au >> > >> > > >> > >> >> > > > > >
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