From: gabriele renzi <surrender_it@...1.vip.ukl.yahoo.com>
Date: 2004-07-10T04:17:31+09:00
Subject: Re: My impressions about Ruby

il Fri, 09 Jul 2004 17:53:54 GMT, "Sam Sungshik Kong"
<ssk@chol.nospam.net> ha scritto::


Thanks for considering the community nice, your comment is quite nice
too..


Just some points:

A class is an object in python too. And it has class methods, just
like ruby. Actually, they even both have metamethods (as in method of
the class' class). Python even have static methods. (which imho are
useless..)
If you want docstrings they're easy to implemente, take a look at
metatags on the ruby application archive: raa.ruby-lang.org.

And about unicode.. well, you could use the iconv library, but it's
agreed that better encoding handling is needed. 
If you look in the archives You'll find references to m17n, and you'll
discover that unicode is impressively restricted and euro centric (I
could never ever ever suppose that a charset with 170000 characters
existed, but it does.). This is supposed to be fixed in ruby2. 

Happy rubying :)