From: Logan Capaldo <logancapaldo@...>
Date: 2005-05-27T11:48:01+09:00
Subject: Re: metaclass in python, role in perl and AOP in ruby

On 5/26/05, gabriele renzi <surrender_it@remove-yahoo.it> wrote:
> Lionel Thiry ha scritto:
> > Hello!
> >
> > I had some kind of vision the other day:
> >
> > * Python
> > It has metaclasses programming since version 2.3.
> >
> > * Perl6
> > It will focus on roles.
> >
> > * Ruby2
> > If ruby2 focus too much on metaclasses, it would mimic python2.3. If
> > ruby2 focus on roles, it would mimic perl6. If ruby2 focus on AOP, ruby
> > wouldn't mimic anything.
> >
> 
> it would mimic AspectJ. Or, if we just install the supposed :pre :post
> :wrap hooks it would mimic Common Lisp, I think.
> 
> 
How about we don't worry about Ruby mimicing anything? Just let it do
what it does. There's no reason to artificially impose a focus for
Ruby 2 just to avoid "mimicing" other languages. Some would say Ruby
mimics perl right now ($_, $1, etc.), but that doesn't really matter
because it has its merits and its disadvantages just like any other
language. I hope ruby doesn't become an AOP language or a metaclass
language or a role language, but rather a Ruby language.