From: Daniel Brockman <daniel@...>
Date: 2005-07-29T11:15:38+09:00
Subject: Re: What's so special about operators, built-in classes and modules?

Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@ruby-lang.org> writes:

> Goto is much more powerful control structure than while,
> break, next, etc.  We can construct others using goto.
> I wander why no one propose to unify them.

I would assume it's precisely because "goto is a much more
powerful control structure" that noone has proposed to unify
it with while, break and next.  It wouldn't make sense.

With classes and modules, it's the exact opposite:  The one
is *not* much more powerful than the other; they are so much
alike that people are proposing to unify them.

-- 
Daniel Brockman <daniel@brockman.se>