From: Michal 'hramrach' Suchanek <hramrach@...>
Date: 2005-07-20T06:40:07+09:00
Subject: Re: ] Re: Ruby has ruined my Java (was Re: Ruby has ruined my C++)

On Tue, Jul 19, 2005 at 06:55:23AM +0900, Jacob Fugal wrote:
> On 7/18/05, Daniel Amelang <daniel.amelang@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Let's say that I have this...friend...um yea. And this 'friend' was
> > tossing around ideas about what a rubyesque GUI toolkit API would look
> > like. What would people think of something like this for event
> > handling?:
> > 
> > ...
> > button.when_pushed do
> >   puts "Hey, don't push my buttons!"
> > end
> > ...
> 
> I, personally, would prefer something more along the lines:
> 
> button.on_event( :push ) do
>   puts "Hey, don't push my buttons!"
> end

This looks like it is more flexible .. but it requires the user of the
library to write a dispatcher function. And since ruby is dynamic you do
not need to force users into writing dispatchers to get flexibility.

So I like the first one better.

Thanks

Michal Suchanek