From: gabriele renzi <surrender_it@...>
Date: 2005-12-23T03:42:50+09:00
Subject: Re: Bruce Eckel wouldn't know why to switch from Python to Ruby

tony summerfelt ha scritto:
> Doug H wrote on 12/20/2005 6:42 PM:
> 
>>#python:
> 
> 
>>#ruby:
> 
> 
> is it just me or did that ruby code look a lot cleaner?

I think everyone can agree :)

But the python approach is maybe a little more pragmatic, in most use 
cases you'd write this in ruby:
  class Foo
   attr_accessor :foo
   def initialize foo
    @foo = foo
   end
   end
  end
while in python it would be:
  class Foo:
   def __init__(slf,foo):
    slf.foo=foo

relying on the fact that you could translate variable access into an 
accessor method when needed withouth breaking the interface.
OTOH some hardcore-OO people could object that allowing access to 
instance variables by default may be a bad habit.
tomayto tomahto, I'd say.