[ruby-talk:16277] Re: Strange idea... exporting from a scope

"Benjamin J. Tilly" <[e-mail]> writes:

> I write a lot of Perl.  I have seen Smalltalk but not programmed in
> it extensively.  I do not know what you mean by, "as you'd write
> Perl" or "as you'd write Smalltalk".  Both languages support many
> styles and I believe that the style someone chooses has more to do
> with the programmer than the language.  Which means that I don't
> know what style you expect people to associate with each.

Whoa :)

I wasn't being nasty about Perl style, nor about Smalltalk style. I
_was_ observing that there's a difference between the style you use in
the two. In Smalltalk, you don't think twice about writing lots and
lots of small classes. With the best will in the world, the inertia of
writing classes in Perl tends to mean I don't write so many.

Reading my original, I can see why you might think that I was saying
that all Perl programs were monolithic, but that wasn't my intention.
I was simply trying to illustrate that languages can suggest a coding
style.


Regards


Dave