From: Logan Capaldo <logancapaldo@...>
Date: 2005-12-08T11:24:21+09:00
Subject: Re: They say I write Ruby like Perl


On Dec 7, 2005, at 9:13 PM, Steve Litt wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I wrote some hierarchy handling classes in Node.rb
> (http://www.troubleshooters.com/projects/Node.rb/index.htm), and  
> I've been
> told I write Ruby in Perl style. In future software, what could I  
> do to write
> in a more Ruby-like fashion?
>
> Thanks
>
> SteveT
>
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Well with merely skimming your code, I would suggest replacing  
camelCase method names with underscore_style ones. Other than that,  
it doesn't seem too perlish to me, I don't see a mess of $'s anyway, ;)