From: Eric Hodel <drbrain@...7.net>
Date: 2005-03-30T07:37:25+09:00
Subject: Re: ! haphazard

On 29 Mar 2005, at 13:29, bertrandmuscle@yahoo.com wrote:

>>> but for myself and perhaps many other users it comes down to how 
>>> intuitive the language is. from this perspective: if sort! works, 
>>> sort_by! should also.
>>>
>>> one of the things that drew me to ruby recently was this philosophy, 
>>> but there have been some off-putting inconsistencies.
>> There is no substitute for understanding what the algorithm is doing
>> and the efficiency implications...  it is not about intuition or
>> consistency.  It might be about documentation.
>
> I don't agree with this statement. This would be true, perhaps, if the 
> !bang method was some kind of loaded module and not part of the core 
> language. The essence of the language itself should be consistent 
> beyond anything else.

There are two very important things to remember...

Ruby is perfectly intuitive to Matz.

If you stick around, Matz will program your brain.

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