Re: Ruby Vs. ... might find comparison of interest.

On Thursday 28 October 2004 02:38 pm, James Britt wrote:
| trans. (T. Onoma) wrote:
| > http://www.garret.ru/~knizhnik/dybase/doc/dybase.html#specific
|
| He doesn't know enough Ruby to be making such comparisons.
|
| "For example reflection support in Ruby is very restricted - it is not
| possible to access instance variables outside the object. "
|
| False.
|
| Articles such as these might be better referred to as "Somebody's
| 10-minute understanding of Ruby vs ..."

True. But that's not the point. That kind of info is "out there". And this 
site was referenced from a Ruby lib called, 'purple', which essentially said 
that DyBase was a better way to go --that's I how I found it.

So its easy to say he doesn't know diddly. But we as a community still need to 
address such things --and from both sides. Where they are accurate we should 
improve on our end, and where they are inaccurate we need to get them to 
improve on their end. On that not I will email him. Is ther anything else I 
should add besides the instance var thing?

Speaking of which what advantage does 

  obj.instance_var_set("@x", 10)
  obj.instance_variable_get("@x")

have over,

  obj.@x = 10
  obj.@x
 
Surely the later can be parsed.

T.