From: bruno modulix <onurb@...>
Date: 2004-10-21T04:34:17+09:00
Subject: Re: A concise description of Ruby?

James Britt a �crit :
(snip)
> 
> Although the phrase has been glommed by Python fans, I believe it more 
> appropriate to say that Ruby is almost like executable pseudo-code[*]. 
> There is very little extraneous syntax to interfere with simply 
> expressing what you want to do.
(snip)
> [*]  Show of hands: How many people write "__self__" as a routine part 
> of of their pseudo code?
> 

Err... actually, it's 'self', not '__self__', and since it's pretty 
common in OOPLs to have a 'self', 'this' or like keyword to refer to the 
current instance in methods, I don't see where's the problem. Now, how 
many people would write @attr instead of this.attr or self.attr in their 
pseudocode ?-)

Bruno