From: James Britt <jamesUNDERBARb@...>
Date: 2004-10-21T16:07:54+09:00
Subject: Re: A concise description of Ruby?

bruno modulix wrote:
> 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 ?-)


Oh, quite right, but that's why I would say that Ruby is *almost* like 
pseudo code.

My pseudo code tends to look like

foo() {
  ...
}

No self, no def.


James

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