Is what you dislike about blocks the fact that you usually do
o.do_method(a,b) {write_block_stuff_here}
rather than having
c = lambda {write_block_stuff_here}
o.do_method(a,b,c)
or am I misunderstanding something?
I wonder if ruby got i18n wrong in spite of, or because of (Han
unification disunity?), the creators frequently using non-ASCII text
themselves.
Andrew
On Sat, Apr 24, 2010 at 11:45 PM, Mark Wotton <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 24, 2010 at 9:24 PM, Andrew Grimm <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>> Opposite of the previous question. Unlike the previous, it should be
>> able to fit in 140 characters or less.
>>
>> For me:
>> * ruby (MRI and YARV) is an imperfect implementation of ruby (the language).
>> * ruby's appeal isn't small, just selective, ala Spinal Tap.
>
> dammit, I squeezed mine into the last one. To recap:
>
> relatively slow
> difficult to enforce deliberate constraints
> capricious scoping changes
> C API is pretty fugly, and changes significantly between releases
> blocks aren't full first-class closures
> no story for multi-core/parallel programming
> UTF-8, but almost everyone gets that wrong initially.
>
> the old line about languages people bitch about and languages people
> don't use comes to mind, though.
>
> mark
>
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