From: "David A. Black" <dblack@...>
Date: 2005-03-31T22:22:36+09:00
Subject: Re: New block syntax

Hi --

On Thu, 31 Mar 2005, Sean E. Russell wrote:

> On Wednesday 30 March 2005 20:55, David A. Black wrote:
>> I prefer that the constructor (and the person reading the code from
>> left to right) know what it's doing as soon as its leftmost token
>> appears.
>
> If I may be allowed a brief ad hominem argument, by this logic, Perl has a
> better syntax than Ruby, because the human can see by the first token of any
> variable what type of variable it is.

Ruby variables are untyped, so there's no ground for comparison.  At
*no* point does one see what type a Ruby variable is.


David

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David A. Black
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