From: Dick Davies <rasputnik@...>
Date: 2004-09-16T03:53:36+09:00
Subject: Re: Ex-Perl coders: Howz it feel to convert to Ruby?

* Phil Tomson <ptkwt@aracnet.com> [0909 19:09]:

> ....  You know all of the methods that will operate on a particular 
> object of a certain class (or you can easily find out) and there were more 
> methods available on builtin classes (for example, look at all of the 
> methods available on Array objects and compare with functions available in 
> Perl to operate on @list objects).

That's something that shouldn't be overlooked -

when I went back to perldoc after maybe 9 months away from Perl I had
major problebs remembering the right function to do a particular bit
of manipulation on a Hash. perldoc -f isn't much use without a method name,
and even Google is only useful if can say what you want :)

With Ruby it was just 'ri Hash;ri Enumerable' to see all the methods
that worked on a Hash.

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