From: James Britt <james_b@...>
Date: 2005-05-31T01:30:48+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby != POLS [was Re: creating variable with eval]

Gavin Kistner wrote:
> On May 30, 2005, at 7:40 AM, Stefan Kaes wrote:
> 
>> This comes up again and again because the current behaviour is  
>> inconsistent with the proudly stated principle of least suprise.
> 
> 
> Matz has stated repeatedly that the POLS is *not* supposed to be  
> applied to everyone. It is obviously impossible to provide little-or- no 
> surprise to everyone, given that people have different expectations.

Really.  I'm surprised people still keep bringing up POLS.



James

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