From: "J. Ryan Sobol" <ryansobol@...>
Date: 2005-12-23T11:33:49+09:00
Subject: Re: Why not Python? (No, no, I am not a spy)


On Dec 22, 2005, at 9:07 PM, baalbek wrote:

> Steve Litt wrote:
>> On Wednesday 21 December 2005 01:22 pm, Steffen Mutter wrote:
>>> Am Wed, 21 Dec 2005 08:54:12 -0800 schrieb Tolga:
>>>
>>>> One or two weeks ago, I tried Python and loved it.
>>>
>>> What exactly did make you feel happy?
>> What makes me happy about Python is subordination by indentation.  
>> Remember my thread on end matching, and how complex the answers  
>> became (one responder suggested getting a Ruby parser to do the  
>> job). That all becomes moot via subordination by indentation.
>> If I screw up the indentation, I get either a syntax error or   
>> *very obvious* runtime error.
>> SteveT
>> Steve Litt
>> http://www.troubleshooters.com
>> slitt@troubleshooters.com
>
> Sorry, but the indentation feature of Python (along with the  
> mandatory prefix self of every class method) is one of the worst  
> design decisions made by a language designer, and is what turned me  
> away from Python to Ruby.
>
> That said, if there weren't a Ruby, I would still be a Pythonista!
>
> Baalbek
>

Excuse my newbi-ness, but isn't that "self rule" for class methods  
similar in Ruby?  E.g.

class A
	def self.a_class_method
		puts "A class method"
	end
# OR
	def A.another_class_method
		puts "Another class method"
	end
end

~ ryan ~