From: Mark Volkmann Date: 2006-01-20T00:43:48+09:00 Subject: Re: My Thought on the "Pickaxe book" (from a Ruby novice) On 1/19/06, Kenneth Collins wrote: > John, pick out the way to do something that seems most natural to you > and get familiar with that. Then ignore the rest. I think Ruby's "more > than one way to do it" was intended as a blessing, not a burden. That's not really good enough though. I you ever have a need to read Ruby code that someone else wrote, you'll have to understand every way to do something. I love Ruby, but I'm not yet a fan of having many ways to do something unless there are cases where each possible approach is better than the others. A particular thing I dislike is synonyms for methods in the built-in classes. Sure I can choose to use the method name that makes the most sense to me, but I still have to be aware of all the synonyms so I can read code that others wrote. -- R. Mark Volkmann Partner, Object Computing, Inc.