haha, apologies Lindsay - no offense meant :)
On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 12:36 AM, Lindsay Holmwood <[email protected]>wrote: > > 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 > >> > > >> > > > >> > > >> > >> > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > http://holmwood.id.au/~lindsay/ <http://holmwood.id.au/%7Elindsay/> (me) > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby or Rails Oceania" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rails-oceania?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
