On Sun, Apr 25, 2010 at 12:03 AM, Andrew Grimm <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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?
close. if it were just that, it'd be fine, but what if you want 'b' to
be a closure as well? You can't pass two blocks in.
> I wonder if ruby got i18n wrong in spite of, or because of (Han
> unification disunity?), the creators frequently using non-ASCII text
> themselves.
As I've heard it, the Japanese in general dislike UTF8 because they
got outmanoeuvred by the Chinese at the UTF meeting, so one of the
characters in UTF8 which is meant to represent a Japanese glyph is
actually the Chinese equivalent.
mark
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