From: A Bull in the China Shop of Life <feoh@...>
Date: 2001-07-19T23:43:58+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:18122] Re: Looking for Ruby programming  exercises

At 10:32 PM 7/19/01 +0900, James (ruby-talk) spewed forth:
> >
> > Seriously, I can think of any number of 'toy' programming problems.
> >
> > Like the "bottles of beer" thing just posted, or maybe an iterator that
> > iterates through the days of week - the list is endless.
>
>What features of Ruby, though, do you think are the ones most likely to be
>unfamiliar or tricky to the Ruby Newbie?
>
>James

Iterators and blocks I'd have to say was the Ruby concept I had the hardest 
time wrapping my head around, and I'm still pretty sure I only have a basic 
grasp of what's happening.

I think perhaps also I'm a little bit short on common Ruby idioms - what 
are some examples of iterators or blocks being elegantly used to solve a 
particular problem?

That's about it really, thankfully much of Ruby is blissfully 
straightforward  :)

-Chris