From: Gene Tani <gene.tani@...>
Date: 2006-02-12T02:38:24+09:00
Subject: Re: Insights into Ruby from Lua

Excellent.  This post deserves to be preserved in rubygarden wiki
somewhere.

Phrogz wrote:
>
> "new" versus "initialize"

blank objects (not initialize'd) from class#allocate, can be useful
http://whytheluckystiff.net/articles/rubyOneEightOh.html


>
> The Trouble with First-Class Functions
> ------------------------------------------------------------
> I have repeatedly complained on ruby-talk about the fact that Methods
> aren't first-class functions. (The term 'first-class functions' as I'm
> using it here is another way of saying 'function literals'...it means
> that functions are just another atomic variable type, that can be
> invoked with any object as the 'self' scope.) Blocks and Procs and

Hmmph, so python functions aren't 1st-clas sobjects, like they always
say

> Aw fuck. Matz is smart. :)
> 
> --
> (-, /\ \/ / /\/

nice, too
(can't do "e"s in ascii art)