I suspect the ability to call private methods is something that'd be very hard to change in ruby. I can't see how you could change that without forbidding open classes, which would mean an end to duck punching (though to be honest I don't punch ducks much myself)
One minor glitch that annoys me is that you can't declare a method private in the method definition itself. You can't do something like private def change_balance(amount) ... end instead, you have to do def change_balance(amount) ... end private_method :change_balance which isn't very DRY to me. For what it's worth, some people regard private methods as a code smell - something that ought to be refactored out into another object. Andrew On Sun, Apr 25, 2010 at 10:30 AM, liam <[email protected]> wrote: > I don't know ruby very well so my likes / dislikes are evolving, but > the moment the things I don't like are: > > Ruby has complicated and overloaded anonymous method syntax: > - do ... end, proc.new, lambda, & parameter syntax, blocks are method > parameters but not exactly > > Compare this to the javascript equivalent: function() {} > > Linking scripts is a pain with require, load, require_relative. > > The ability to call private methods. > > > On Apr 24, 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. >> >> Andrew >> >> -- >> 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 >> athttp://groups.google.com/group/rails-oceania?hl=en. > > -- > 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. > > -- 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.
